If you live in a wintry climate, and there is a garden center or nursery near you, I highly recommend visiting on an cold day and walking around inside, just breathing in all that green. (If you’re lucky enough to live near one of those tropical palm houses, like in Chicago, then by all means go there.)
I spent a couple wonderful hours at a garden center in January and came home with a couple of ficus trees (Ficus benjamina and Ficus lyrata) and a philodendron (“Prince of Orange”) and a jade plant. They all seem to be thriving, though I often hear the benjamina dropping dead leaves in the middle of the night.
We also painted and rearranged our half-size office-y room upstairs, so now it’s more of a greenhouse/yoga room. I divided my aloe and moved a couple other succulents up there, because the window gets great light. We also planted some seeds today from a butternut squash, so we’ll see if those take. (Are grocery store squash treated in some way that makes you unable to use the seeds to grow your own?)
Not related to the garden, but I also knitted a replacement orange scarf (apparently this yarn is NOT washable – the cowl I made last year fused to itself when I washed it), and sewed curtains for two more windows. They’re so much nicer when they’re hemmed to the right length, and it was nice to get reacquainted with my sewing machine. (The kiddo got to help too; I let her do the foot pedal for some of the curtains, and try out a zig-zag stitch on some scrap fabric.) I haven’t done a sewing project since the quilt I finished last December – but I just signed up for a beginning quilting class that starts at the end of April!
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