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Dec. 26th, 2018 11:27 amI now have (almost) everything I need to make the yard fully operational. Most importantly, I am no longer beholden to the delivery guy's dodgy-ass schedule.
I also got extremely excited because the coralbean I planted about a year ago finally had flowers. Then I was like, "Wow, I had no idea coralbean had such... suspiciously sage-like flowers? I thought they were more like a honeysuckle shape?"
The coralbean is not finally flowering. The coralbean has a bit of red sage cropping up under it, some of which has punched through the canopy and that is now flowering. *jazz-hands*
One of the neighboring planters I kept a bunch of container-bound, older sage plants in is now full of reseeded babies, which will hopefully survive any further cold snaps. Since this is precisely why I kept the containers in that planter, mission accomplished.
So far tropical sage has demonstrated itself as a pretty reliable plant for my yard--it reseeds readily, keeps blooming even though I don't deadhead it, and the pollinators love it. The red, pink, and white varieties have been going pretty well, and I'm hoping the blue sage I picked up a few months ago now turns out to be a solid choice, too. I want to pick up some more mistflower, though--it's pretty, and the one that came free with my cocoplum has turned out to really be the bees' jam.
Now I just need to figure out how I'm going to get the fourth water barrel in without completely wrecking the croton that came with the house. It's not the greatest plant in the world, but it's put up with a lot of neglect and kept on ticking, so I feel like it deserves at least an attempt at preservation.
I also got extremely excited because the coralbean I planted about a year ago finally had flowers. Then I was like, "Wow, I had no idea coralbean had such... suspiciously sage-like flowers? I thought they were more like a honeysuckle shape?"
The coralbean is not finally flowering. The coralbean has a bit of red sage cropping up under it, some of which has punched through the canopy and that is now flowering. *jazz-hands*
One of the neighboring planters I kept a bunch of container-bound, older sage plants in is now full of reseeded babies, which will hopefully survive any further cold snaps. Since this is precisely why I kept the containers in that planter, mission accomplished.
So far tropical sage has demonstrated itself as a pretty reliable plant for my yard--it reseeds readily, keeps blooming even though I don't deadhead it, and the pollinators love it. The red, pink, and white varieties have been going pretty well, and I'm hoping the blue sage I picked up a few months ago now turns out to be a solid choice, too. I want to pick up some more mistflower, though--it's pretty, and the one that came free with my cocoplum has turned out to really be the bees' jam.
Now I just need to figure out how I'm going to get the fourth water barrel in without completely wrecking the croton that came with the house. It's not the greatest plant in the world, but it's put up with a lot of neglect and kept on ticking, so I feel like it deserves at least an attempt at preservation.
