plants!

[ehyde]

Like, I assume, many, I have Acquired Houseplants during the pandemic. I held off till September, when I picked up two tiny free succulent propagations from a "free plants" box set by the side of the bike path. I'm not sure exactly what they are, but they're still growing! I then bought a few plants at Trader Joe's, and they're doing good too (although the fern still looks...interesting). But then I got interested in bonsai. And, well, it was not the right season to do anything with bonsai, but I watched a lot of videos (Peter Chan's youtube channel is both informative and relaxing, I recommend it). I mentioned my interest in the weeks before Christmas, and my mother in law showed up with five baby trees she'd dug up from her yard. It wasn't really the best time to dig them up and only one survived into the spring, but one is better than none. There's another young tree growing too close to our house, I think white mulberry, that I want to try to uproot and cut the top off of and see if I can keep it growing in a pot. Possible in theory and rapidly approaching the right time of year to try. I'm actually very excited about this one, although I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much--where it's growing means getting enough of the roots out, undamaged, may be very tricky. I still haven't quite figured out how to manage outdoor yardwork and watching kids at the same time, but this year I should be able to get a little more done than last year, at least. With that in mind we started a tray of vegetable seeds, and bought some flower bulbs and two raspberry bushes. Tomorrow's supposed to be good weather, so we'll try to get those in the ground.

Comments

[kilerkki]

I am very interested in following along with your bonsai adventures. They’re so beautiful but they seem like SO much work!

[ehyde]

I'll post updates when I have them! It feels weird talking about a hobby when I don't have anything to show for it yet, but I keep reminding myself that learning about it IS "doing something," here.

[forestofglory]

Yay plants! Good luck with the baby tree!

[narie]

Bonsai sounds very exciting and next level! Not your average houseplant for sure, I've always been terrified of them. Instead, I fell prey to one too many Liziqi videos and next thing I knew I had acquired a trellis and some cucumber and tomato seedlings for my balcony. Now half my pots are edible!