There are other things I should be writing about, but I don't feel like it right now. I'm trying to stay in reasonable mode and not let my lizard brain take over, but I can feel my crusty, logical shell softening. I had lots of dreams last night where everything was out of control and frustrating and I couldn't get where I wanted to go. I have a feeling this will spill out of my dreams and bleed into reality soon, but let's try to hold that off for a while.
So, yes, let me describe the plants on my porch, the one bright spot in my life right now. I have four window boxes along the front edge. One has yellow linaria and dwarf cosmos ("dwarf" meaning it will be only 2 feet tall instead of 4). Another has a type of bright pink salvia I've never seen before (and can't find it definitively on the interwebs, though I think it's a greggii hybrid) and white nicotiana. The next has dwarf nasturtiums and blue salvia, and the last has salmon-y zinnias and blue scaevola (fan flower).
The concrete planters on either side of the stairs up to the porch have lantana with gorgeous pink and orange flowers, portulaca, and silver thyme. The portulaca is looking sadly droopy, but I just put it in yesterday, so I'm hoping it'll butch up and sort itself out.
Then, I have two window boxes that should start sprouting moonflowers and morning glories in the next couple of weeks, but right now they just look like big boxes of dirt. So not so exciting at the moment.
I have two little pots of lavender and some semi-trailing nasturtiums waiting patiently for a pot. I have variegated basil, which is so much prettier (and I think has a better fragrance and taste) than plain old sweet basil. I have a spearmint plant (good for summer cocktails and lemonade) and a rosemary plant (which hopefully won't croak -- they can be temperamental, particularly in pots, and I very likely used the wrong soil).
That's it so far. Now that my porch has been cleared of crap (broken chairs and the like), I have a lot more space, so I'm thinking about some shady plants that might be happy behind the lilac bush (which has just finished flowering and looks kind of brown and sad at the moment).
I think it's time for more porchy porch before I settle down to work on something about Linux administration, which I'm sure will be thrilling.
Posted by thevieve at May 29, 2008 9:36 AM