Sunday, January 11, 2009

Winter gardening

Welcome to my blog! The snow is deep and the forecast is for bitter cold this week, so I turn to my indoor garden for relief. The begonias are looking good under lights and the carnivorous Nepenthes are happy with the humidity they get in the bathroom skylight. The cuttings of the Nepenthes Rokko x spectabilis I did yesterday got a little dry so I popped them into a closed terrarium and will hope for the best.
My Christmas tree is a California Wax Privet (Ligustrum texanum) that stands about 8 feet high. Tomorrow I'll take off the ornaments but I'm thinking about leaving the lights on for a while because it is just so lovely when it's dark outside and the white lights are reflected in the windows.
This is one of the best times of the year... the plant catalogs are pouring in and I can create a million gardens in my mind without requiring a single aspirin for my aching back!

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