((((Lepp)))) positive vibes!!!
Thankee, madam.
Good luck, but I have no doubt that you'll be successful. You can't be kept down.
Well, not for long, anyway.
Good luck, LL. Hope your day ends on a better note than it began.
Thankee. I hope so, too.
Lepplady You need a massage, a fancy lunch, and a maid:
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I like the way you think. Pass the bacon.
I think Alice could accomplish all those things on her own.
Ah, but could she put in an herb garden for me? (Probably.)
I did, indeed, go outside and get my hands dirty. I didn't just water the plants, I tended to them. Every time we go to Tall Guy's gramma's house, she rips up half her yard to send home with us under the misguided notion that I can keep green things alive. I've explained to her that plants come to my house to die. But she psh-aws me and packs whole grocery bags full of clippings and plants she rips right out of the ground. I bring 'em home and dutifully try my best. And this time, some of them seem to be thriving.
The plants in the closest five pots all got stuck in one pot just to try to keep 'em alive until I could get some better dirt. They survived and became pot-bound, so I untangled their roots and gave 'em each a pot. Here's hoping they take hold.
This tree... thing got stuck in with the big elephant ears in the ground at first, but the latter quickly overwhelmed that spot, and the red ants got at this guy, along with Grampa. So both got potted.
Grampa (first planted by Tall Guy's great grandfather) isn't thriving, but he's hanging in there.
I might have to repot him, again. I didn't put any rocks in the bottom for root drainage. I did remember to put them in with everything I planted today.
I have no idea what these purple things are, but they seem to be doing okay, putting down roots and displaying new growth. So I repotted them, too.
And I planted some herbs. We'll see if they come up or not. There's Oregano, Thyme and Rosemary. And in the farthest little pots, gourds.
I don't if anything will happen, but time will tell. I hope so.
I've had this fellow for a couple of years. After putting out one shoot last year, it died. I left it there.
Then, this spring, it started sprouting again. I guess it's one of those that comes back every year.
It had a bunch of big long leaves and looked great for months, but now it seems to be dying off again. I'll leave it alone and see if it comes back again.
These little elephant ears were mere sprouts when we got 'em so they got stuck in the same pot as those first few, just to try to get them to live until I could bout some good potting soil.
If they thrive after being repotted this time, they'll get this big.
These are more mature plants Gramma ripped up and sent home with us. They were about half this size where we brought 'em home.
They really TOOK.
A little sunshine, feline therapy (I step out on the porch and it's a Hitchcock movie with cats), plant therapy and a big cup of coffee with a packet of hot cocoa stirred in did seem to have done the trick.
((LeppLady)) Hope that does the trick for you!
Thankee, Spidey.
(((Lepp))))
Here's a little something to help you feel better
*GASP*
And yeah. this.