I cannot for the life of me remember how I used to be able to both read and write blogs before getting to work at 9, but it’s a struggle these days, I’m behind on my blog reading, and I have writers’ block. I’m thinking about putting myself on a M-W-F writing schedule, and a [...]
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Outside at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, it was definitely winter. My favorite part, the Japanese garden with the huge pond was too icy and was closed, so I had to appreciate it from a chilly distance, but I was excited to spy this heron, who is probably used to catching fish here. When [...]
My banana winterizing attempts have officially failed. I tried a shortcut of one large insulating cage for a clump of bananas, rather than following instructions, and making individual insulation wrappers for each banana stalk. After a windy night last week, I found my insulation blown over, and the enclosed bananas completely died back. [...]
I did the everything I could get to on the winterizing front. The pots were huddled by the south side of the house, the were bananas wrapped, the really tender stuff was relocated inside the house. Now all I have to do is resist the urge to declare winter over at the first [...]
I didn’t believe winter weather was ever really going to hit Portland this year. Our low temperatures have been in the 40s. I had good intentions, but was putting off my winterizing plans until my vacation all last week, but then I got hit with the flu and didn’t manage to pull off [...]
2008-11-09 ::
megan //
Gardens + Plants
A humane way to overwinter bananas (please don’t cut them down, that makes me sad!)
A humane way to overwinter bananas (please don’t cut them down, that makes me sad!)
I’ve been kicking myself for the entire last year after I missed the Chinese Garden’s demonstration of wrapping bananas and winterizing the garden. Hardy bananas (musa basjoo) are root hardy to 0, but you can lose the “trunk” in much warmer temperatures than that (and I have), and then you’re starting over the next [...]
2008-10-31 ::
megan //
Plants
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. (The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. (The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
I am in search of a greenhouse this year. I hadn’t planned on being a greenhouse type gardener, but then this year I started buying containers and non-hardy plants. At the time, I told myself I was fine with treating them as long-lasting cut flowers, and if they made it through the winter, [...]