With the beanflower's boon and the blackbird's tune....

[tabaqui]

*waves*
It's me again! :) And this journal is starting to oddly resemble a gardening one. Or something. Please don't let the pictures fool you - i *do not* garden. I am horrible at gardening. I kill things nobody else can kill, mostly through total loss of memory about the existence of said thing. I forget to water, to move, to prune....

Which is why i love bulbs and my yard that is mostly flowering weeds. :)

Speaking of - for the last couple of weeks, the honeysuckle has been in bloom. Oooh, it's so wonderful. You step outside - or you just get a breeze through the window - and you are enveloped in the scent. I love it so much.




I wish it would cover the back fence, too. But, see, the thing is...as much as i Do Not Garden, i dearly *love* plants. Vines, trees, flowering things...i love them. I would have a house full if a) i didn't kill them all (history will not be kind) and b) didn't have cats that thought eating and digging in potted plants a fine, fine pasttime.



So i got a nice hanging plant for mom's day. :)



It's called 'Hawaiian Luau', and it has four different colors of flowers - probably four different plants in one pot. I love it, but it needs watering daily or it wilts into sad little strings. I am persevering at remembering. :)

And so, that's my post for the day. Tomorrow, I think i'm going to do the meme that trishabooms tagged me in ages ago.

(P.S. - it's low seventies and just lovely outside. Would that it would stay this way until August!)

Comments

[blueswan]

Thanks for sharing your pics. That's a pretty hanging basket. I love the colours!

[tabaqui]

You're welcome! I love it, too - just so 'bright and gay', as they say. :)

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous pics, Beloved! Your hanging pot is beautiful! *G*

Nice job with the more posting. ;)

[tabaqui]

Thank you, bb! :)

I try, i try. I have huddled in my corner too long.
*twirls you*

[sweptawaybayou.livejournal.com]

Wow! i love the hanging pot and of course, the honeysuckle. I need to cultivate some of that along my fences too.

i'll just have to start poking you every day and asking about watering the boys plant. :)

*luffs all over you*

[tabaqui]

*snerk*
Yes indeed.

Elf pulled a couple longish bits of fine off the other day, and i have them in a container with water in the hopes they'll root. We shall see! I once had some 'decorative' pussy willow cuttings in a bouquet root.
*crosses toes*

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

Oh nice. Your honeysuckle is way further forward than mine, but so are your temperatures! *g*

Purty hanging plant, but yeah, the having to remember to water is the downside - we will do a communal nudge to remind you... :)

[tabaqui]

I dunno about your honeysuckle, but those vines have been there for years, too.

Heeee! Communal nudging might actually keep it alive through summer!
*smooch*

[stir-of-echoes.livejournal.com]

The honeysuckle is gorgeous :)

And I like the hanging basket. We have them hanging from the walls but I sometimes too forget to water and they are totally unforgiving if you forget and die as a punishment. I know because I have been punished by many.

:)

[tabaqui]

Awwww.
*pet pet*

I have killed a good many pretty things in my day.

.....

That makes me sound like a serial killer. Heh. I *luff* the honeysuckle.

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

Hanging basket are hard to keep alive! They're lovely though.

[tabaqui]

Are they? Ooh! Then my guilt will be a bit alleviated if this one doesn't make it, heh.

[ravurian]

Oh, lovely! We allegedly have a honeysuckle in our garden, but it hasn't flowered in donkey's years. I'm trying to resurrect it, with limited success. I mean, it finally appears to be growing again, but nothing remotely resembling flowering.

[tabaqui]

And here i thought honeysuckle was nigh-indestructible. Good luck! Monstrous Bebe pulled a couple long vine bits off the other day and i have them in a glass, hoping they'll root.

We shall see.

[anelith.livejournal.com]

Those pictures are lovely and I think you and I share gardening skill levels! I try more and more to think of ways to make the yard and garden maintenance-free. My one effort is to plant some annuals in the front of the house, where I can't avoid seeing them. That's the only way I remember to water -- seeing them wither in front of my eyes.

[tabaqui]

Thanks! Omg, i can't garden *so hard*, hehe. Even seeing them wither, sometimes, i think 'must water those', go inside, get suddenly side-tracked.... It's sad.

Bulbs are your friends! Bulbs that grow big things, like lilies and such. And - i have no idea where you live - yucca is good. Mint *takes over*. I'll go for anything that spreads by itself and is invasive. Heee.

[realtsunamigirl.livejournal.com]

I know just how you feel about gardening. I love plants and don't actually mind rooting around in the dirt I just have the worst case of "Black Thumb" imaginable. I am a fantastic weeder; if you want to rid your lawn of dandelions, I'm your gal (though I admit not even my formidable talents are defeated by fennel), but if you want bulbs put in best lock me in the house and possibly put up a warding circle of some kind to protect them. lol.

[tabaqui]

Heeee!

Hi hi hi!!
*smooches you*
*spins you about*

Now, see, i do bulbs because - you stick 'em in the ground and then you forget about them. They do their thing all by their lonesome! It's great. :)

Wow, nice to see you!

[realtsunamigirl.livejournal.com]

Hi right back atcha :-)

It's nice to be seen, lol.

I can nurture bulb plants, but if I put them in the ground myself I may as well be trying to get rocks to bloom.

(Oh and I meant to say that even my talents were *not* up to defeating fennel. It's my herbacious Kryptonite!)

[tabaqui]

Heee! Poor little bulbs. :)