It's Summer Indoors

My orchid is blooming again; it rests for a couple of months and then springs to beautiful life once more. Just the right sight at what we hope is the tail end of winter.

I gave away my three-tiered light shelves  and this guy and his cohort sit on my desk over a nest of  pebbles and moisture in my east window study

Meanwhile, winter persists as it's inclined to do in February in south central Ontario. I was playing around with my new camera and liked the icicle at the side of the shed. Trust me when I tell you the picture looked much better before I posted it.

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Wins and Losses

I'm coming to grips with the sun's ability to bake and burn its way through my attempt at rigging sun shades.



I carefully set up what I considered to be a protected area for the orchids and it would have been kinder to toss them into a den of starving lions. The sun snickered at my feeble attempt to keep them shaded and burned them to a crisp.

They had been doing so well inside under lights until I read that they like to be outdoors in the summer, in a shady spot where they catch the breeze.

A couple of them are fighting back safe indoors, and if they could speak, I would be in bigger trouble.



On the win side, the water lily I planted last year is perky.


Then there's the Tamarack tree that is supposed to love a boggy venue and boy did I have the boggy venue for it. The finicky thing lifted its skirts up high and said, "Give me dry land or I'm outa here." This spring I moved it to higher ground and it has been leaping up into serious contention for tree category.


Win some, lose some. That's a gardener's life.