lol you gonna haul that plant to my house on the bus every other weekend?
don't get any ideas about some shared custody shit. i'm not gonna give you money for plant food or new pots every september.
― lxy, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
how about i visit you occasionally and say hey to the daisy when i'm there.
― lxy, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
That's more what I was thinking :)
― tehersa (tehresa), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
did i mention that it doesn't have flowers, just leaves?
― lxy, Thursday, 25 June 2009 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link
well, actually, did i mention that it doesn't have non-shriveled flowers, just leaves?
― lxy, Thursday, 25 June 2009 00:49 (fourteen years ago) link
You did not but that's alright. I don't care what those other people say, I'm gonna love it anyway.
― tehersa (tehresa), Thursday, 25 June 2009 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
you should transport it home on a bicycle built for two.
― estela, Thursday, 25 June 2009 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
:)
― lxy, Thursday, 25 June 2009 05:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i warmed my own heart with that post.
― estela, Thursday, 25 June 2009 05:39 (fourteen years ago) link
the notion more than the post itself.
― estela, Thursday, 25 June 2009 05:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i brought the daisy inside and cleaned it up a bit. looks pretty good!
― lxy, Saturday, 27 June 2009 03:11 (fourteen years ago) link
my theory is that plants like a little stress. they try harder and are better for it. keeps em strong, not so "oh bring me every last thing all the time" lazylike.
― lxy, Saturday, 27 June 2009 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link
daisylike
I bought some herbs yesterday: lemon verbena, lemon balm, and pineapple mint. They are all potted together, a fragrant theresome. My guess is they will struggle with indoor life.
― tehersa (tehresa), Saturday, 27 June 2009 03:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Lol theresome! Oy I can't wait for real internets without autotext.
― tehersa (tehresa), Saturday, 27 June 2009 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm going to miss your autotext.
― estela, Saturday, 27 June 2009 03:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm sure it will crop back up from time to time.
― tehersa (tehresa), Saturday, 27 June 2009 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i will hey a kick out of that.
― estela, Saturday, 27 June 2009 03:22 (fourteen years ago) link
tehersome
― lxy, Saturday, 27 June 2009 03:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Here are my new plants:http://www.twitpic.com/8osejWhatta pair!
― tehersa (tehresa), Sunday, 28 June 2009 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
yay they look so cute and happy!
― lxy, Sunday, 28 June 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
The herbs started looking droopy and sad so I watered them. Hope this helps!*developing*
― tehersa (tehresa), Monday, 29 June 2009 02:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i have hoped that hopeless kind of hope, it usually ends with you cutting your losses instead of your parsley.
― estela, Monday, 29 June 2009 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
ps estela, that's the daisy there on the right, all cleaned up for the changing of hands.
― lxy, Monday, 29 June 2009 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
she scrubbed up well, little daisy doolittle.
― estela, Monday, 29 June 2009 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
tru confession: i was a little apprehensive there for a coupla days after all my proclamations of good health on the stoop and then the poor thing.... but all is well now, just look!
― lxy, Monday, 29 June 2009 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
(even 'enry lost 'ope for a little while though, didn't he?)
― lxy, Monday, 29 June 2009 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
are there lilac trees in the heart of town? can you hear a lark in any other part of town? does enchantment pour out of every door? no, it's just on the stoop where you live!
― estela, Monday, 29 June 2009 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link
<3
― lxy, Monday, 29 June 2009 04:19 (fourteen years ago) link
She seems happy so far! Thankig u, lx!
― tehersa (tehresa), Monday, 29 June 2009 04:55 (fourteen years ago) link
thankig u, t!
― lxy, Monday, 29 June 2009 04:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't do anything!
― tehersa (tehresa), Monday, 29 June 2009 05:03 (fourteen years ago) link
there is good news and bad news.
goodplants are growing! new leaves! increased volume!http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9260.jpghttp://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9263.jpg
badsomething is attacking daisy :( i think it is a leaf miner of some sort :(http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9262.jpghttp://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9261.jpg
― tehersa (tehresa), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
whatever it is has been busy! poor daisy, she's always been a little bit troubled.
― lxy, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
those plants are awfully fluffy, though. good work, tehe.
― lxy, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
they are bending towards the window; i have to remember to rotate them. i hope i can fix this leaf miner issue :(
― tehersa (tehresa), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
god, where's linghert when we need him!
― lxy, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't know if he would be too useful in this situation as when he found some pests on his flower he threw it away.
― tehersa (tehresa), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Although leafminer injuries are conspicuous, most leafminers produce injuries that have little, if any, effect on plant health.
leafminer injuries. what a world.
― tehersa (tehresa), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
little, if any,
― lxy, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 05:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm proud to be a leaf miner's daughterI remember well, the well where I drew waterThe work we done was hardAt night we'd sleep, cause we were tiredI never thought I'd ever leave Butcher Holler
― estela, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 06:27 (fourteen years ago) link
browsing the freecycle i found an offered redwood sapling. i think that is not apartment-worthy, but i can dream, right? imagine having your very own redwood!!!
― te,he (tehresa), Friday, 10 July 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i imagined it for a few seconds but now i am imagining something else.
― estela, Friday, 10 July 2009 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
what are you imagining right now?
― te,he (tehresa), Friday, 10 July 2009 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i am imaging it would block all the sunlight and estela's magic ficus would drop its leaves in dismay.
― lxy, Friday, 10 July 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i was imagining breakfast but now i'm imagining how tsky you would have been if you'd seen the sorry state of my thirsty ficus yesterday.
― estela, Friday, 10 July 2009 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i think daisy has a bipolar disorder!
this morning, she was pert and happy, basking in the sun.i went out for 2 hours and when i came home she was all wilted and droopy and oh so sad.i gave her some water and 30 min later she was all happy again! so odd! the soil was dry around the edges, but still damp in the center! what a finicky little creature!
― te,he (tehresa), Sunday, 26 July 2009 05:04 (fourteen years ago) link
my formerly healthy cilantro plants look a little bit dead
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 26 July 2009 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link
The jungle corner:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/3758399564_47deed92d4.jpg
AND! One of the tomatoes has a FLOWER!!!:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2615/3758409092_3725ef9c32.jpg
― jaq, Sunday, 26 July 2009 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
wow nice work!
― te,he (tehresa), Sunday, 26 July 2009 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link
aw.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 03:56 (twelve years ago) link
Ms. Ivy has taken over the butcher block:http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7109/7502289690_8cfa990c32.jpg
― jaq, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
she certainly has. i'm afraid she is up to no good. i heard she's been having typing lessons. ignore me at your peril.
― estela, Monday, 9 July 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
some, including me, have taken to calling her ms. connivy.
― estela, Monday, 9 July 2012 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
We totally had to move her away from the liquor cabinet, it's true.
― jaq, Monday, 9 July 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
The Geranium
When I put her out, once, by the garbage pail,She looked so limp and bedraggled,So foolish and trusting, like a sick poodle,Or a wizened aster in late September,I brought her back in againFor a new routine--Vitamins, water, and whateverSustenance seemed sensibleAt the time: she'd livedSo long on gin, bobbie pins, half-smoked cigars, dead beer,Her shriveled petals fallingOn the faded carpet, the staleSteak grease stuck to her fuzzy leaves.(Dried-out, she creaked like a tulip.)The things she endured!--The dumb dames shrieking half the nightOr the two of us, alone, both seedy,Me breathing booze at her,She leaning out of her pot toward the window.Near the end, she seemed almost to hear me--And that was scary--So when that snuffling cretin of a maidThrew her, pot and all, into the trash-can,I said nothing.But I sacked the presumptuous hag the next week,I was that lonely.
--Theodore Roethke
― estela, Sunday, 29 July 2012 11:27 (eleven years ago) link
♥♥♥
(so so so wish I'd gone to UW when Roethke was teaching there...)
― jaq, Sunday, 29 July 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
i wish you had too. also, since we're wishing, that i had as well.
― estela, Monday, 30 July 2012 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
i have a very healthy lavender plant and i bought a mint plant today. i'm going to need container herbs for my yardless house if i get it.
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 23 June 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
Window box!
― tehresa, Monday, 24 June 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
My sisters gave me a money tree for my apartment but so far I am still broke :(
― tehresa, Monday, 30 June 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
I have inherited a plant I think is supposed to live outdoors. What do I do with this?
http://i59.tinypic.com/5ca7g2.jpg
― tehresa, Sunday, 8 March 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link
Is that a hydrangea?
― jaq, Sunday, 8 March 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link
Yes!
― tehresa, Sunday, 8 March 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
Maybe you could bonsai it?
― jaq, Sunday, 8 March 2015 23:06 (nine years ago) link
I am thinking of turning my "three season porch" into a greenhouse :)
― tehresa, Monday, 9 March 2015 04:15 (nine years ago) link
btw my money tree didn't really survive the journey to our new home. it's still here but looking very sad. We even left out in a hotel and weby back for it but I fear it's a lost cause :(
― tehresa, Monday, 9 March 2015 04:21 (nine years ago) link