Thursday, November 24, 2005

Greenhouse Update!!

I can't believe I haven't blogged in a month - what is wrong with me?? I am retired and I am too busy...but worthwhile busy, hopefully. We had a very successful church bazaar and my plant table brought in $135.00 and I sold most of my plants on the tables - just brought home a small tray, so I was happy. You would never know that 2 carloads of plants left my greenhouse 20 days ago. Since the bazaar, I have been repotting and working on a lot of the plants that were a little neglected during the sale preparation. All the plants are doing great - we have had some nice sunny days and they just love that. The plants that came in from the garden are thriving - geraniums are blooming - begonias are flowering constantly. My poinsettias from last Christmas are starting to flower - they are huge plants now - I learned too late at my recent Horti Club meeting that I should have cut them back in July. We had a flower shop owner, David Minaker, as guest speaker and he told us all about poinsettias - did you know that most of them are started by a grower in California named Ecke. Did you also know that they are not at all poisonous and they are a member of the milkweed family. I am fascinated by poinsettia info. We will be shopping for our Church's poinsettias very soon. We will bring them home to our greenhouse and I will get to enjoy them till Christmas eve. The poinsettias seem larger this year and they are more expensive. Last year, we paid $3.88 ea. at Rona and they are $7.98 now but twice as large which means we will likely buy 12 large instead of 24 small pots.
Oh yes, I did get all my bulbs in the garden - they are scattered everywhere and I will likely forget where I planted them by next spring and will be totally surprised when they all bloom.
Our garden is rototilled - everything is away for winter and today we had snow so my garden is covered now.
Enjoyment: Watching my Christmas cactus bloom - it is a beautiful salmon colour.

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