1 post tagged “"stone fruit"”
Bareroot season is coming up and I'm starting to peruse online catalogs. And just the same way it works when I go into a comic book or record store, the more I see, the more I want. Just "going in" is dangerous. It's hard to limit myself to what is most time-sensitive instead of getting luxury plants like a Miracle Fruit bush.
Google Pedometer tells me I walked 4.5209 miles today (It said that worked off 837 calories. Two slices of cake would put it all back on, I think. Not that I had any cake, but I wasn't eating super-healthy, either.) That is a LOT for someone as out-of-shape as I am. So when I got home I was too tired to garden (and, actually, it was too hot). Now it's cooler but I don't want to water in the front yard because the neighbors are doing their usual yelling (instead of normal conversational tone), their relatives parking their cars in front of my driveway because they're too lazy to walk 10 feet further than they have to, and the kids going nuts outside 'til much later than my parents ever allowed me to stay up at that age.... When that happens, I just stay inside because otherwise my blood pressure starts climbing.
I was in the back yard for a short while to see whether the wanna-be general contractor my mom hired had finally (3.5 months after the fact) removed the soil his subcontractors poisoned by throwing their paint thinner all over it. He finally had, although I wish he'd done a longer strip to be sure. The feral cat and kitten are still hanging out in my backyard. They seem to have adopted a shade-dappled space underneath the park bench. I wanted to get them more used to me so I approached as close as I thought they'd take and sat there for a while. I really don't do enough sitting and enjoying of my garden. That's supposed to be part of what a garden is for, right??
At Cross-Pollination, a guy mentioned that one of his deciduous fruit trees had just bloomed again. Idell explained a little of why that might be but I have trouble remembering why. Anyway, today I noticed that one of my plum trees has done the same thing! Not profuse blossoming, but at least a half dozen. I noticed the Pakistan mulberry leafing out a couple weeks ago and I just thought that was its normal habit but now that it's leafing and blossoming (they don't look much like flowers...they actually look a lot like green mulberries), I'm beginning to think it's doing the same. I don't know why the plants are freaking out into a second spring. I mean, a second flush of warmth is pretty normal Bay Area weather. Our hottest month is usually October. So why is it different this year?
The Dancy tangerine is bursting with blossoms and the honeybees are all over it. But that's normal for that citrus variety.
Oh! I forgot to mention that I hit the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse to look for something I could use for plant tags. I didn't find anything appropriate. But then I saw Frazee Paint and realized paint stirrers would be perfect. I was prepared to buy some but they gave me a bunch for free. Whoopee!
