Life in the Land of Dreamy Dreams

…I now have to go outside now and water my plants. They’re dying, wilted and sad in the August swelter.
Only then is it time to go back to figuring out if they’ll drown in Hurricane Gustav.

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It’s been a slow grower, but despite not being very big made it through the winter just fine and has started to bloom with fair regularity.

So here we are again, the roses are blooming and I’m wondering how long it’ll last. Charlie keeps reminding me that our climate is just not kind to roses, but I’m gonna keep trying a little while longer. After all, banging my head on the wall is one of my favorite activities.
Anyway, here’s a new [...]

I hadn’t had lilies before and didn’t realize that they’re sort of like poinsettias. What looks like blooms are actually new leaves coming in. They begin rolled up into a tube (in this case the colors remind me of a peach), and slowly unravel and darken until it becomes another leaf.
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Mother’s Day was tough- trying to balance being happy about the whole Mom-thing vs. being worried about Nora.
But I awoke to many balloons Alison had heliumized and let loose in my room. She’d written notes on each one, and mysteriously told me it was going to be a “theme” day.
She insisted we drive out to [...]

Every time I see the puppy hiding in and around the flowers, I think of Ferdinand the Bull, who just “wanted to sit quietly and smell the flowers.”
:::sigh:::
What a lovely idea. If only Bruiser would sit quietly and smell the flowers instead of running around like a loon, using Kassie’s ears as handles, and doing [...]

For the first time I’m actually planting a few practical things this year. Well, we had grapes last year, but this year I’ve added tomatoes and this container-sized blueberry plant.
I’ve never actually seen them growing before, and just love these little bloomlets.

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Here’s the first fuschia bloom of the year. I love ‘em, but they don’t last long here, they absolutely fall apart in the heat, so I enjoy them while I can.
Usually I buy them in baskets, but this year I started with a small plant and we’ll see how long I can nurse it [...]

Tis the season to replace all the stuff that died over the winter. My favorite Hibiscus guy is gone, alas, but I bought several from his recommended source.
They were decently large, and budded up. They’re at least twice as big as most mail order exotics. In short, they were really good… except that…you know…they’re not [...]