The Gardeners Anonymous Blog

Orchids–You Can Dress Them Up…

Before                                             After friendship make-over

Friends are great; you can learn so much from them. They teach you to use things like Preparation H to get rid of wrinkles (I swear I never really tried it) and also how to dress up your orchids.

My friend Kim gave me her orchid once so I could get it to re-bloom for her. I got it to re-bloom and I gave it back to her. I went over to her house to visit one day and there was the orchid. But there was something different about it. It was gorgeous. It was all dressed up.

This is how she did it:

Instead of the usual bamboo stick to hold up the spike, Kim replaced the stick with a cool branch from a curly willow. She added green moss spilling over the plant base, and where the orchid spike was tied to the cool artsy branch there was a little poof of moss to hide the tie.

It looked beautiful.

Above and below are my attempt at Kim's orchid dress-up on my spiking orchids.

Before                                            After friendship make-over

Stumble It!

My Drought-Tolerant Yard is Finally Finished.

Dude, it’s here.

That’s right, my husband finally coughed up enough money to finish the job. Recession-smession, I’m not sure he understands that his job is to make the money and it’s my job to spend it. Who knew that a bunch of ground-up bark would cost so much?

The planting is still a little sparse. I am going to see how it does through this season and then maybe add some more plants–drought tolerant of course.

Stumble It!

Free Flowers.

I spend so much time in the garden tending my plants and flowers that I always forget to pick them.

Sometimes I’m so lame that when I’m at the store I’ll buy a bouquet of flowers.

I have an acre of gardens, so chances are something’s in bloom most of the year.

You mean I can cut my own bouquet of flowers for free without leaving home and spending any money?

What a concept.

Oh and by the way, the bouquets don’t have to be made out of traditional flowers, especially this time of year.

Here is my good deed for the day:
While running with Moondoggie I learned the hard way that the trail I normally run was closed. This added two miles to my run that I wasn’t expecting and didn’t want.

It also added two VERY STEEP hills.

So I decided to inform every single person that I saw that the trail was closed. Ninety percent of the people I told did not know and thanked me. The other ten percent already knew but still thanked me.

Thank you, for reading my blog.