succulents

Today is an unusual day…. spent indoors. Rain. Cold. Wet dogs. New earrings for Mel. I snuck outside while the girls were asleep to capture Syd’s unicorn admist the small collection of succulents we put together for dad’s birthday present…. Euphorbia obesa (Baseball plant), Haworthia attenuate (Fairy Washboard), Lithops marmorata (Living stones), and Cremmosedum (Little Gem).

Over time, we will be replacing some of our planters in the yard with a succulent garden. Many of our agaves are producing off-shoots and this spring we will detach them from their mother plants and set them on their own. Kristi, imagine how Frida would paint this…. I am sure she would not leave out placentas of some sort!

seeds!

It is officially seed catalogue season. It is 55 degrees this morning in Bloomington and the snow has melted. I now have access to and have filled the bird feeder. I have turned over my compost tumblers. The sun is pouring in my windows ... and all I can think about is what seed to order.

So chica, here are some of the seeds that I am thinking about for the Bloomington gardens:
white currant tomato (2008 Wylie house seed); purple calabash tomato (2008 Wylie house seed); german pink tomato (SSE); wapsipinicon peach tomato (SSE)

blue jade corn (SSE); dragon's tongue bean (SSE); potimarron squash (SSE) ... the three sisters

chioggia beet (SSE); dragon carrot (SSE)
sylveta arugula (SSE); SSE lettuce mixture; lacinato kale (SSE); rhubarb chard (SSE)
king of mammoth pumpkin (2008 Wylie house seed); Ananas d'Amerique a Chair Verte Melon (2008 Wylie house seed); double yield cucumber (SSE); blacktail mountain watermelon (SSE)
Tom Thumb pea (SSE); shirofumi soybean (SSE)
jalepeno (2008 seed)
evening sunflower (SSE)

transplants:
Aunt Molly's ground cherry (SSE); green zebra tomato (SSE); tomatillo; peppers; eggplant (in spite of the flea beetles!)
okra
brussel sprouts
butternut squash

With love from Kristi