Yesterday was about gardening instead of walking, to seize the good weather and rescue the ancient root bound spider plant.
At first I was going to root prune and replace with new soil. Then when I depotted it, it seemed better to go radical, literally, and start over, with a mix of new soil in with what was clinging to the roots, since that's got a lot of microorganisms to preserve.
All that said, spider plants are tough old things, and can survive my well meaning measures.
Waiting for the arrival of the surgeon
In the middle of the action
Reorganized and in rehab
I also have to do something about the mass of zinnia and other foliage, now pretty much finished flowering,
Right here, the utility people will soon need to work, replacing the meters, so this will need to be away. Also my hibiscus is expected soon, and this might be her new place.
Meanwhile, since the yellow marigold is full of buds, I brought it in, to see if they flower in the house.
And I set up prunings from the new tradescantia in the old teapot. I found the trad. is too heavy for me to lift back up to the ceiling hook. I had to take it down to water, after I found it had no drainage saucer attached, oh.
So I put up an S hook, and now I can reach it better. I might also just set a bucket under it at watering time, to save lugging it up and down
On the right almost out of frame is the coleus, which is doing okay for now. Also there are very few leaves dropping from the ficus since it came in, but the house heat hasn't been on yet, and that might change things.
At this point, I was a bit tired from all the carrying and sweeping, so I decided to wait a day to tackle the zinnia situation.
And there are a few flowers still appearing hopefully.
And before we get carried away in the Northern hemisphere cleaning up, let's remember
Happy day, everyone, there's always flowers in one sense or another, if we can manage to find them.
