You may or may not have noticed, I kind of checked out for a week or so.
My daughter was home for a visit, my husband had a birthday (thank you to everyone who left comments wishing him a happy day) and my Etsy shops are keeping me extremely busy - blah blah blah. I might be kind of checking out for good soon, I sway back and forth and that decision so much it makes me dizzy.
It seriously takes me about 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, to keep my shops stocked, fill orders and get my shipments out. Other than eating breakfast and playing a few games of Racko with Andrew Henry, I just don't get to any thing else - forget dinner, I almost never get to that. I don't know how you all do it. I can get posts together, no problem. It's the getting to visit all of your blogs that I just can't seem to manage much anymore and we all know that this blogging world is a tit for tat kind of place so my comments are drying up - so are my plants. Speaking of drying up, it's still 99 degrees outside as I type this at 7:00 p.m.!
For example...
Another poor dead plant. It didn't survive our summer, heck I almost didn't survive our summer. I didn't even notice it was begging for attention and now it's gone. I don't feel good about it. I've got this one on its last leg as well...
To be fair, this one got infested with agave beetles. There is a remedy but it involves digging a trench around the outside of the plant and blah blah, honestly they lost me at "digging". I decided I should not play mother nature. I mean, I would be saving the plant, but depriving the agave beetle of a food source. Who am I to make that choice? It's survival of the fittest right?
Okay, I admit it - it was about the digging of the trench. If I don't have time to blog or stop to eat dinner, I really don't have time to dig a darn trench. Long live the agave beetle.
Showing posts with label plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plants. Show all posts
9.21.2011
5.21.2010
the fern room...
Last week we took a trip to the beautiful flower show at the Lincoln Park Conservatory. There was another display in the show, not showy and colorful like the flowers, but captivating all the same. Just a few shots but I thought you might enjoy them.
I already knew this information because I have a daughter who got her undergraduate degree in Biology. This daughter also loves to share new found knowledge and believe it or not - once in a blue moon, I remember some of it.
and the not so standard...
and the one I found the most unusual, the Staghorn Fern...
How cool is that? I've never had much luck with Ferns but I think I might give it another go.
Do you have a green thumb?
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chicago,
lincoln park conservatory,
plants,
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