Tag: houseplants
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Six on Saturday | 9th May 2026
A spring surprise that I forgot I’d planted. Dogtooth violets from 2023 finally blooming, wood anemones just in time for Mother’s Day, and the front flower bed getting camera-ready for… reasons.
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Six on Saturday | 2nd May 2026
This red pelargonium came in from the garden last autumn and has not stopped blooming since. The sun came back, the Easter decorations came out, it said “You know what? More flowers.” It deserved its own entry.
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Six on Saturday | 25th April 2026
Snow that didn’t arrive, kalanchoes from three different Christmases, an accidental amaryllis discovery, and dahlias plotting their summer takeover.
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Six on Saturday | 21st March 2026
This week we’re going indoors. One pothos cutting from 2010 became a dynasty spanning every room in the house. There’s also a revenge Brugmansia, a succulent that taught my son that broken doesn’t mean dead, a Christmas cactus I snapped in half, and two freshly planted beds of broad beans.
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Six on Saturday | 9th December 2023
I’ve been waiting later and later every Saturday before writing these posts, hoping that I might snap a picture of something that will make its way into the collection. It’s made a little difficult by the fact that I can only take pictures on the weekend since it is dark when I leave the house…
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Six on Saturday | 25th November 2023
The snow I promised to photograph arrived this past week. Today was a clear and crisp and very brisk -7°C, so I crunched around outside in my biggest pair of boots to show you the current state of the garden. 1. Standard view of the veg garden, winter edition. The ground is frozen and it’s…
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Six on Saturday | 18th November 2023
First post of winter, brrr! Our nights have consistently been dipping below 0°C now, though not very far below most of the time. Enough to justify a fire in a woodstove and candles everywhere, though! There are about six hours between sunrise and sunset at the moment, though that’s closer to five hours of usable…
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Six on Saturday | 11th November 2023
It’s supposed to rain for most of this weekend, but I’ll be ducking out during the lighter portions to harvest what I can because winter officially begins for us next week. The nighttime temps will be consistently below 0ºC, the snow will fall, and the ground will be frozen solid after a few weeks. I’ve…
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Six on Saturday | 4th November 2023
So this has been an eventful week, though perhaps not one I’d like to repeat. I came down with a rather unpleasant virus at the end of last week which lasted well into the beginning of this one, keeping me from participating in Halloween events with my students. I also lost my voice, so I…