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20 Feb 2009Purchased Geranium (Unknown) Purchased and Houseplant garden
Green leaf with golden center.
Purchased at the 2009 Northwest Flower & Garden Show.
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20 Feb 2009Purchased 1 1 Geranium 'Frank Headley' Purchased and Houseplant garden
“Green leaf with deep cream border, single salmon flowers, (dwarf).”
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20 Feb 2009Purchased Geranium 'Golden Ears' Purchased and Houseplant garden
“Green to gold leaf with dark brown blotch.”
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20 Feb 2009Purchased Geranium 'Midnight Salmon' Purchased and Houseplant garden
Dark green leaves with chocolate brown center. Salmon-flowered.
Purchased at the 2009 Northwest Flower & Garden Show.
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20 Feb 2009Purchased Onc. Sharry Baby 'Ruby Doll' Purchased and Houseplant garden
“Onc Sharry Baby ‘Ruby Doll’ (Jamie Sutton x Honolulu) Another classic hard to beat orchid. Smells lightly like chocolate, lots of deep burgundy flowers with a pink red lip. A very nice compact plant and these flower spikes are much shorter than most oncidiums.”
Healthy p...
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20 Feb 2009Purchased Lc. Gold Digger 'Fuch's Mandarin' Purchased and Houseplant garden
Laeliocattleya – hybrid of Laelia and Cattleya.
Lc. Gold Digger ’Fuch’s Mandarin’ (Lc.Red Gold X C. Warpaint) – Clusters of vibrant yellow/orange flowers with red striping in the throat.
Purchased at the 2009 Northwest Flower & Garden Show.
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20 Feb 2009Purchased 1 Slc. Kagaribi Dawn 'Red Star' Purchased and Houseplant garden
Sophrolaeliocattleya = hybrid of Sophronitis, Laelia and Cattleya.
“Slc Kagaribi Dawn ‘Red Star’ (Kagaribi x Tropic Dawn) Electric red orange flowers, the kind you can see from across the greenhouse. Very easy to grow and bloom. Very compact growth habit makes this a must have....
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17 Feb 2009On getting parsley to germinate 1 Italian Parsley Sprouting and Propagation garden11°C / 51°F
My 3-year old parsley seed packet is marked “soak.” For the past couple of years I have been soaking seeds overnight, as directed, and getting fairly lousy germination rates. This year, I started soaking my seeds and forgot them. For three days. To correct my mistake, I soaked a secon...
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07 Feb 2009Sown Italian Parsley Sown and Propagation gardenOne tray of oversoaked (soaked 3 days) seeds + one tray of soaked (8 hours) seeds.
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22 Jan 2009Barely any leaves yet; two of four buds open. Amaryllis 'Apple Blossom' Blooming and Houseplant gardenSunny -1°C / 31°F

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