rainymountain's Journal

Everything is more or less in place in the Winter garden but can I get to the curtains and blinds to draw them? I cut the hibiscus #2 back hard, it was getting a bit leggy but it had lots of leaf sprouts along the stems so I hope it will not take as long as the other to start blooming again. I al...

This has been a terrific plant, it bloomed non-stop for about a year, and then stopped briefly and grew another side stem and flowered again but briefly. It has only ever had two leaves and they began to look quite flaccid towards the end of the summer. When I was looking at it one day I thought ...

7.15am Damp, with light rain showers. We need more rain as we have only had about 2" since our long stretch of dry hot weather. Co-incidentally with thinking about my Coffee bush yesterday, last night I went to see a film advocating FairTrade called ‘Black Gold’ about the coffee...

5.39 pm A heavy frost, most plants and shrubs looking well frosted this morning and lemony-green leaves raining down from the old Black Walnut down the road. Between setting out for the Farmer’s Market, when that front yard, sidewalk and road were piled with leaves steadily pitter-patterin...

10.35 pm Made the mistake of checking the weather forecast, for tomorrow snow level moving down from 1300m to valley bottom – we are about 900m. Friday sunny high +7C low -6C, cloudy and roughly the same temperatures for several days after. The norms for the time of year are 12C/ 4C –...