Tuesday, March 29, 2022

We had some wind locally a few days ago...

 Hello, everyone.

By "some wind" I mean enough to make the branches move a lot. Also this happened:



All but the very bottom layer of the stack-a-plant tower tipped over and many of the plants were dislodged.


This little flower (?) I rescued from the vegetable garden was dumped onto the grass. I decided to put it into a gallon-sized pot by itself. (It's very happy in its new situation. Has almost doubled in size!) 

The grassy leaves hanging upside-down in the pot are some of the rain lilies I had planted into it.


Many of the succulents were tossed and turned.

Oh well, I really needed to rearrange that plant tower anyway. The rescued flower was getting too big for the stack-a-plant slots, and the rain lily bulbs were poorly situated. 

I wonder if the best plan for a pot like this is to have either small-sized herbs, exclusively, or flowers, or in the alternative some partial-sun succulents, but not a mix of all three. The tower garden would have more compatibility in watering needs that way.

New version has all of the rain lilies on the top 2 layers and all of the succulents in the lower parts. Also some of the succulents with transparent leaf tops, as in the second picture above, were transferred to other pots with more light.

I will try to remember to take a photo of the rearranged plant tower.

In other garden news, St. Joseph has been placed in his new garden at the corner of the yard.


The large rocks are there as accents. Behind him is a croton plant, the kind with multicolored leaves, which we hope will grow taller to serve as a background.

The native honeysuckle vine that we got from High Country Gardens has begun making flower buds, the pink primrose is burgeoning and I found some root suckers sprouting in the base of the pot so now there are two pots of these lovely flowers, and various other potted plants are also delighted in the return of warm weather.






 

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