Just went out to water the garden. It's rained today, but not heavily and I can't trust that it will. There are a couple of banana peppers that have gone red, but I've not harvested them yet, one more is green and the jalapeno has buds so there will be more jalapeno before frost. That's good I have plans for the jalapeno. The banana pepper as well if I can get the ingredients before they are too ripe. Several plants I've given names to are thriving:
Mina, my confederate rose
Lucy, my duranta
Joni, my yellow mini rose
Belinda, my bletilla orchid
Emily, my bottlebrush.
I need to tend Emily this fall, perhaps when she sheds her leaves for winter. I need to mulch her surviving part, and I need to cut off her dead branches so she may branch out anew in the spring.
Neville, my Norfolk pine has fallen again, I need to get more soil onto him but you know what? I'm going to dig up some dark earth and scratchings and put him in that. Perhaps the weight will keep him from toppling so badly!
Over all, this summer has been less cruel. I've not lost a single plant! Penny, my prayer plant, isn't doing well but isn't dead, I need to see what to do for her. Chloe, my closet plant, is faring well. I feel Emily will have a brother soon to come. His name will be Arthur and he will protect his sister loyally! I must figure out now what to do with my little plant family when frost comes. I'll not lose another garden to the cold clutches of winter I simply won't! But I'll figure something out, I know there is a solution!
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