Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Christmas is coming!




Now I know Christmas is coming as we are starting to bring home poinsettias from Home Depot. They will be in the greenhouse till Christmas and then we will bring them to our church. Yesterday, we bought 2 beautiful Poinsettia Trees and we also have 6 poinsettias on the shelves - from a church wedding on Saturday. Also, my Christmas cactus is starting to bloom - I have my angel tree decorated in my living room - baby Jesus is in his Nativity scene - some wreaths are hung - lights are up outdoors and I have started to sew some gifts and do some baking.....exhausting time of year but so nice.
PS My Jade Plant is in bloom - this is the third year that it has flowered - see photo.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

plants and pots




I am still recuperating from our church bazaar on Nov. 4th - sold a lot of plants and brought quite a few back to the greenhouse. I have been doing lots of potting and tidying. I have the opportunity this weekend to donate some of the left over plants to a nursing home bazaar being held in my neighbourhood, so if they all sell, I will have more free space.
We have had a lot of rain lately - again today - yesterday was nice so I actually got to walk outdoors and when I came home I washed out some of my plantpots. Can't do much gardening outside. A few things are still trying to stay alive, like the gaillardia and the herbs and one little rose keeps blooming.
Oh Yes, the bazaar was successful again this year.
The geraniums in the greenhouse are finally starting to grow new leaves and bloom a little. They took a while to recuperate from the shock of being tranferred inside for the winter.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

It's November 1st!





Now it is November-it was beautiful here today - cool but sunny - we raked leaves and bagged up some yard waste for our roadside pickup on Nov. 13th. Didn't really do much in the greenhouse today - Friday is the day all bazaar plants get transported to the church parish hall - then I will price them and set them up so they look good. Actually picked some sage today - it is still growing so thought I would dry some more. Still have a few flowers in bloom - marigolds and geraniums are gone now. I managed to take some greenhouse photos today-red geranium-spiderwort pink flower-pink geranium-red flower on pineapple sage plant.