After work, I stopped by an unnamed home improvement store and noticed a really pretty Lamium.
It is quite bushy, so I’m going to take multiple cuttings of it to plant with my Coleus.
When I got the Lamium home, I was so surprise to see two unknown Coleus cuttings in it. Now, how did that get there? and where are they from?… I swear, these Coleus, really need to stop following me home!… (but, I might as well pot them up)
On Saturday, my oldest brother picked me up so I can get some scalloped bricks from his house that he didn’t need.
We got detoured, when my other brother called his mobile phone and told him someone was getting rid of some bamboo poles. The owner grew them in their backyard and got sick of them, so they ripped it all out. OMG! They were long!
Once we got to my oldest brother’s house, he showed my some of his plants and asked if I knew what this was… and that… etc.
I was surprised to see a couple plants I want… including a yellow Siberian Iris, some Hostas that were growing like weeds… along with the weeds… and some purple velvet-like Salvia. He also had some tadpoles in his inflatable swimming pool and he showed me a nest with two eggs. He said that the parents haven’t come back in a while and he’s wondering if they got injured. We’re unsure if these will hatch.
On Sunday, I cut down the seed stalks of the Swiss Chard in the front yard, they were getting way to tall. We are still harvesting some of the bottom leaves, so I’m leaving those (for now).
My Aunts, Uncle and Grandma came over to take my Mom out, they took some Swiss Chard and took group photos with all the Roses and other flowers. As I was dead heading the spent flowers, I heard my Grandma say that I’m like a woman because I’m good in the garden… I wasn’t offened… I thought that was so funny!… (I think it the way she said it)… If she only knew ;)
It was getting hot so I took a break, but later sorted through all my Coleus and grouped them into groups of 2, 3 or 4… I’m trying to figure how to combine them into a nice combination to plant into pots. I thought that was the hard part… When it came to planting them… Whew!… That took a while… I ended up with at least 12 pots (mostly with three plants). I also mixed in the Plectranthus ‘Zulu Wonder’ and the Taro, here and there.
You know you’re a gardener when you save the old coffee grounds at work, so you can use them on your garden beds to deter cats from pooping in them.
I think I’ll make this a regular series.
You know you’re a gardener when you see cut herbs in the produce isle… and check to see if they can be rooted.
You know you’re a gardener when you buy a Pineapple primarily to plant it.
Last night, my Mom and I went grocery shopping and Pineapples were on sale for $1.49… I’m going to try to plant this one…
This has been a long week, and I have not been keeping up with my plants, photos, LiveJournal and sleep. (I will this weekend)
I’ve been thinking a lot about the pit bull attack on Wednesday and have this weird feeling. I don’t know if it’s like a feeling of feeling violated… I can’t quite put it in words. I no longer feel safe walking Calli around the neighborhood. I know that was probably a freak thing that happened, but I just can’t go out there with Calli, even thought I know she’s been enjoying our time together when I take her for a dog walk after work.
Yesterday, I took her out… but we just staying within our property, going back and fort between the front yard and back. It kinda felt silly, but that’s just how it’s got to be for now.
This evening, I had an idea to search for dog parks around the area, because I don’t think Vallejo has one. I was so surprised to see the results I found on Google.
Vallejo is opening it’s first dog park next week!!!!!!!
I can’t tell you how great this feels.
I saw this spider in front of our doorway in the middle of the night.
There was barely enough light, so I used a combination of my Palm Treo’s screen, plus a 2 second exposure to capture this. (I didn’t want to use a flash)
I wanted to take another one, but she decided to go.
(Levels and sharpness adjusted with iPhoto)
This seems to be the longest day… especially with yesterday’s incident. I couldn’t sleep, so ended up sleeping at about 5:30am!… I didn’t wake up and was late to work.
Since I was late to work, I couldn’t take carpool, so I drove in. Ironically, look what was in front of me on the freeway…
An animal control vehicle!!!!! I sure could have used them yesterday!!!
Yesterday, one of my coworker was explaining some of my cameras features. I thought I would try my hand at a long exposure shot.
This is taken at the parking lot near my work. I was working overtime and took a break outside. The street in the photo is The Embarcadero in San Francisco. Can you see my Honda Civic?
Since I drove into work, I thought I would take advantage of my car and transport all my overwintered Coleus in one big batch (instead of my “What can I fit into one grocery bag” method. So after I finished all my work (at 11:30pm), I packed all the remaining Coleus at work and made my trip home.
top row (left to right): Coleus ‘Velvet Lime’, Coleus ‘Amora?’
middle row: Coleus ‘Jade’, Coleus ‘Pat Martin’
bottom: Plectranthus ‘Zulu Wonder’