3 photos from my Yard
Jun. 11th, 2021 02:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feng_shui_houseI'm going to post a few pics today. Hope to post more tomorrow.
I started a LOT of hibiscus cuttings a long time ago- a year? Out of... mmm three dozen? I got a few that seemed to be trying, so I planted them. Some of them have bloomed even though they're just foot long sticks.
It was starting to rain one day so I stopped weeding and went to check on the mail- and saw a double rainbow. I wasn't the only one who saw it- a young girl living in a nearby house got SO EXCITED, she was all RAINBOW OMG RAINBOW COME AND SEE. It was a very nice rainbow, well worth the excitement, I think.
(Note, this is the house across the street from me. I don't know the physics of it, but whenever there's a rainbow, that's where I see it.)
And here's part of the front yard where 'autumn flowering crocus" have been working to naturalize. I've been trying not to uproot them when I weed. They're not grass, but they LOOK like grass, and it's really fun when they suddenly burst into bloom after a few days of good rain.
(Autumn flowering crocus blooms whenever, that's just the name. It can take the heat, which is the only reason I still have it.)
Ok, that's several hours break I gave myself from weeding. I did a LOT on the back yard today because for whatever reason I woke up, like shot from a gun AWAKE, way early and decided to take advantage of the early morning house shadow in the back yard. It's easy to dig, all sandy, and much easier when it's not too terribly hot.
I started a LOT of hibiscus cuttings a long time ago- a year? Out of... mmm three dozen? I got a few that seemed to be trying, so I planted them. Some of them have bloomed even though they're just foot long sticks.
It was starting to rain one day so I stopped weeding and went to check on the mail- and saw a double rainbow. I wasn't the only one who saw it- a young girl living in a nearby house got SO EXCITED, she was all RAINBOW OMG RAINBOW COME AND SEE. It was a very nice rainbow, well worth the excitement, I think.
(Note, this is the house across the street from me. I don't know the physics of it, but whenever there's a rainbow, that's where I see it.)
And here's part of the front yard where 'autumn flowering crocus" have been working to naturalize. I've been trying not to uproot them when I weed. They're not grass, but they LOOK like grass, and it's really fun when they suddenly burst into bloom after a few days of good rain.
(Autumn flowering crocus blooms whenever, that's just the name. It can take the heat, which is the only reason I still have it.)
Ok, that's several hours break I gave myself from weeding. I did a LOT on the back yard today because for whatever reason I woke up, like shot from a gun AWAKE, way early and decided to take advantage of the early morning house shadow in the back yard. It's easy to dig, all sandy, and much easier when it's not too terribly hot.
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Date: 2021-06-11 07:49 pm (UTC)Now it is not every day you can see a double rainbow!No wonder the girll was excited, I would be as well!
Also I like those autumn flowering crocusses!!!
I look forward to any pics, always!
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Date: 2021-06-11 08:11 pm (UTC)If you want to grow plants from cuttings, it works better if you have dipped the stems in rooting hormone-- you can buy it, I'm sure. I didn't really expect hibiscus to root, so I didn't buy any. Supposedly there's all sorts of do it yourself things to make plants root, but I don't know... aloe vera gel? cinnamon? human saliva??
The double rainbow was beautiful! It's hard to get it to show up as well in a photo as in real life.
I'm using photo sharing as an incentive to remember to post. :^)