Happy Spring, Everyone
I have crocus blooming outside, while fushia, cyclamen, pelargoniums and forced daffodils are blooming inside. The rosemary has a bumper crop of flowers out on the sunporch. The algae in the fish bowl is blooming too, but that's a different sort of bloom!
The sun is shining and the day is Michigan springtime mild (36^F, 2^C). It's a good beginning. Yay, spring!
(yeah, so I'm a day early by some calendars... so shoot me.)
so you are not in AZ anymore?
Posted by: bill | March 20, 2007 at 06:57 PM
Huh, not one flower on my rosemary. What's your secret?
Posted by: Kathy | March 20, 2007 at 07:04 PM
Bill. Mark and I traded places, he's in Az, and I am up here, supposedly packing up, but spending more time on getting our old jobs put to bed.
Kathy. I think they would like to be in 50F weather for most of the winter, with a dip to the high 30s right before they bloom in the 40s.
With our warm start to the winter this year, this plant set more buds than I've seen before. Still, it looks meager compared to the monstrous lush bushes out in AZ. Those things actually looked blue from the car, they were so loaded with flower.
I'm taking cuttings of this bush with me to plant in the ground down there. We'll see how that works out.
Posted by: Jenn | March 20, 2007 at 07:18 PM
Also Kathy, they like a cold greenhouse, with high humiditity. If you have one or could set your plant in a really cold and bright area it will do better than just in the house at normal human temperatures.
Posted by: Jenn | March 20, 2007 at 07:19 PM
Jenn, it sounds as if you chose a good time to return - just to see the houseplants in flower:)
Good luck with the packing up.
Annie
Posted by: Annie in Austin | March 22, 2007 at 12:40 AM
Jenn, it sounds as if you chose a good time to return - just to see the houseplants in flower:)
Good luck with the packing up.
Annie
Posted by: Annie in Austin | March 22, 2007 at 12:41 AM
I can smell that rosemary now!
Happy Spring!!
Posted by: Lynne | March 27, 2007 at 10:50 AM
Hi Jenn,
Happy Easter!
HOpe your packing is going well.
Posted by: zoey | March 27, 2007 at 06:39 PM
Are you moved yet???
Posted by: Andrea | March 29, 2007 at 02:07 PM
Not yet. Current ETA in Arizona is the week of April 29th...
Posted by: Jenn | March 29, 2007 at 02:20 PM
I have one rosemary bush growing outdoors that is thriving, but has never produced more than a handful of blossoms. I wonder if some varieties just aren't the blooming type?
Posted by: Molly | April 10, 2007 at 06:35 PM
Nice post. We are "enjoying" our spring weather here in Wisconsin. We are watching the final melt off from our eight inches of snow last week. What a wet mess that was! I have to say, the bulbs and buds don't seem too much worse for the wear. A little ice burn and crinkling around the edges, but not bad. Glad I'm not on the East coast today!
Sharon and Snickers
Posted by: Sharon | April 15, 2007 at 12:15 PM