This morning was one of the windiest we'd had in a while and the last few days a fair amount of rain has fallen, making for muggy, hot sticky weather. The plants are loving it, the humans, not so much.
I venture outside during calm interludes to move iris rhizomes around, dividing up clumps to pop up in empty spots in the garden beds and amongst the thyme in pots. I take cuttings of lavender hoping they might take in the now moist soil.
It's now the start of bulb season and they should be appearing soon in the shops. I want to get a head start on the mail order so I can buy in bulk and possibly sell some as fundraisers at garden club. I so far have stayed away from shops and much buying, though I am building up a list of purchases that might come at a later date, if I am brave enough to venture out in red traffic lights with over 500 community cases of covid now recorded in the country (it changes all the time...it's like counting the number of ants crawling in your house..most of the time there is none and the there's a trail and then suddenly you are infested) though the wind and water has put a damper on any initiative. Planet FM is still closed and Garden Planet is on endless repeat.
I miss out on a couple of zoom meetings thanks to fatigue and technical issues, but the word is Garden Club may have a field trip in April and a proper meeting in March. Hooray. Or ...at long last. If all things go to plan. If we are all jabbed five times or what not.
The rain lilies have made an appearance and suddenly have all bloomed like little crocuses all at once. Beauties they are when they do, the rest of the time they look like chives. Naked lady lily also has bloomed. Perhaps in time for Valentines Day? I had emailed the local florist to see if they might need extra hands but heard nothing back from them. Looks like I'll be the one picking flowers anyway. One can't depend on secret admirers to remember the one day when they are supposed to let you know they like you. Here, have a gazania.
Otherwise I'm doing ok here...Mum and I managed to get down to the community garden, harvest some veges, and drop off some empty buckets and baskets to help protect the seedlings.
Feb wishlist -
Bulbs (eerlicheer, dutch iris, freesia, ixia, babiana, bluebells, gladioli..any and all!)
Matching indoor pots
Cats tail trailing indoor plant
Zygocactus - hanging
Letterbox numbers - 41
Paint for letter box - decide that milk white might be safest but boring, when I want a bright red letterbox, so that NZ post cannot miss it
Flower book that has blotting paper (to press flowers in)
Fairy lights to decorate trees. Why not
Lanterns
A mirror
