Perry's Newest Fig Trees

Since Joe and I caught the gardening bug, whenever we visit my parents we make it a point to stop in on Perry's yard across the street, just to see what he's growing and what he's propagating and have a little gardening chat. Invariably at some point during the conversation this means turning down a fig tree, one of the things Perry prodigiously propagates. One day though we're hoping we'll have room and can accept.

Rainy Sunday Recipe for Good Times

New propagation light stand at Susan's

Brunch and a project, the perfect recipe for a rainy Sunday afternoon. The ingredients needed: one gal with matching blue rainboots and toolkit, and another with an apartment large enough to build in and the knack for cooking up awesome waffles and bread pudding with bacon. Mix in Anne's internet instructions for building, some wood, nuts, bolts and string, and a few hours and mimosas later a new propagation light stand is built at Susan's. There's a reason why 4H and scout troops spend a lot of time building things and working on group projects. It's awfully fun. The icing on the rainy Sunday goodtimes cake? Sowing flower seeds.





















Flower seeds sown



Every garden needs someone to watch over it.

Geophytes In the Morning

...and Geophytes at night.































We spent the morning digging up the Sweet Potatoes (Ipomoea batata 'Margarita') that were shredded by the hailstorm in the Rose Garden and the evening dissecting tubers, bulbs and corms in propagation class. Who knew that the tuberous part of the Cyclamen pictured below is really an enlarged hypocotl? And here I thought that growing your basic bulbs and tubers like garlic and potatoes was pretty cool. That Cyclamen hypocotl is something else entirely.































Cyclamen graceum (Bonsai Musem)

Germination

and sychronization...



The ducklings in the terminal pond have grown up so much in the last month and half. The yellow pole beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) and sweet pea flower (Lathyrus odoratus) I sowed last week in our propagation class are just starting out too.