Gardening

[louiselux]

I was out in the garden today, getting it ready for the spring. I put glass in the greenhouse, sawed up a table to make potting shelves, and put all my various lilies in there for potting. My stargazer lilies are poking up out of the compost already. I planted and replanted valerian, chamomile, my two dahlias, both very dark red, mints of various sorts, oregano. Was very happy to notice that wallflowers have seeded themselves against the wall, most appropriately, and should be showing bright yellow and orange soon. I've no idea why my rosemary bushes are flowering, but it's something I've noticed happening across the country. Surely it must be to do with climate change. More evidence: the pink hollyhocks were flowering in December. That's just not normal.

The squirrels were out - one of them had an enormous chicken bone from god knows where. I found a dead thrush in the greenhouse - it must've flown into the glass and broken its neck. We kill more birds with windows every year than get caught by cats. They're very beautiful things, thrushes. Why couldn't it have been a pigeon instead? We have tens of them hanging around, cooing like fools. In the pond we found a tiny black leech! Apparently, and yuckily, they feed happily on snails. We also discovered some miniscule grey shrimps.

Also, I yoga'd and have done a lot more of the dreaded wanky formatting.

Part of a long meme, from randomblade. I really couldn't do it all, but in the spirit of procrastination before bedtime:

I WANT: to be in Fiji
I HAVE: wonderful friends
I WISH: I could live forever
I HATE: petty power struggles
I MISS: my brother
I FEAR: being afraid
I HEAR: my keyboard tapping as I write this
I SEARCH: for the little brush that cleans my vinyl records
I WONDER: if there really is a lost world in the centre of the earth
I REGRET: fighting in the schoolyard with my first love, age 10.
I LOVE: you
I ATE: bread and butter, a plum
I ALWAYS: stick one foot out from under the duvet
I AM NOT: thin
I DANCE: far too infrequently
I SING: in falsetto
I CRY: sometimes when I'm happy
I AM NOT ALWAYS: very calm
I WRITE: short stories
I WON: at least 20 goldfish at fun fairs in the past 30 years
I LOST: a silver dollar from my best friend, 16 years ago. I'm still sad about that
I CONFUSE: left and right
I NEED: to stop worrying about things I can't change
I SHOULD: go to the dentist

Comments

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I put quite a lot of work into gardening.

The weather is so strange - my plants seem very confused too. The rosemary has been flowering since early January, but then we had snow and arctic winds. I don't know if I should really have put the dahlias in, but I just couldn't hold back any longer.