Your garden makes you feel worthy? Let me crush your dreams.

I had a philosophical discussion with my pomegranate awhile back, about the purposes of growing something like pomegranate, especially from seed. It wasn’t thrilled.

We talked about the concept of self worth and a philosophical equation for botanic gardens:

obsessive disorders+time=botanic gardens; I’ll let you digest…

Plants do not make one feel worthless

You are in complete control.

Do you contain them?

You’ve potentially learned to shape the trees to your liking.

My pomegranate didn’t say much, and following the trends I respectfully labelled him introverted. Everything was Utopian until my Pomegranate decided to step in and crush my belief system. Take a look.

There is a botanic name for it you may be familiar with. They would call this event “spreading via Rhizomes”. I call it the Raspgranate syndrome. It simply woke up one day and decided he IS A RASPBERRY and it was time to expend the operation.

See, raspberries spread via underground runners, which run horizontally. This will allow the new shoots to grow upwards.

“Stay uncontained and never accept the labels”, it spoke.

Meanwhile, a few lychee plants decided to experiment with me mid summer, we’ll see how it works out for THEM, however.

A few seeds went into pots and one was sown directly in the ground. Lychee trees are slow growers, require consistently moist soil and warm temperatures.

Flowers of the DAY

If you ever decide to save Gerbera daisy from your local grocery store, plant it in a big pot and soil that retains moisture well. My suggestion mix your native soil with some Peat Moss, otherwise plant directly in the ground. They should have called it the Camel Plant. It almost died on me in a small pot ,and during the replanting process I cut out the bottom of the plastic pot to allow the roots penetrate the ground.

These flowers are worth a million words.

Ever seen Italian Stone Pine Flowering?

I have. Here is the proof.

Being a potted Pine, every single year it questions it’s life choices, when it goes indoors for a couple of weeks in December.

Now, go finish that Turkey.

Angeli.