[Image description: A blood red dahlia with red tips to most of its petals, save for a few petals which are pink and white instead, being held up over a dull-colored blurry background. End description]
deep violet or blood red? sunshine or moonlight? 80s music or 90s music? orchids or dahlias? garnet or ruby? moths or butterflies? aphrodite or athena? grapefruit or pomegranate? angel’s halo or devil’s horns? sirens or banshees? lorde or florence + the machine? the mona lisa or the starry night?
I germinated a cherry and a chinese pine seed in less than a month! I just have a picture of them and it’s super bad, but here it is (cherry seed on the left, chinese pine seed on the right -it is slightly open but can’t be appreciated here-)
For the cherry tree, I cracked carefully the shell with a hammer (if you are going to try it, put the seed inside a paper towel so it doesn’t fly out when you hit it). I read that if you don’t open the shell it takes about 8 months to get it ready, I left some unopened too just in case. Both kinds were stored in a tupperware in wet toilet paper wrapped in transparent cooking film. After a month, the ones with the shell all have black dots, I think it’s a fungus. Some of the ones without shell got too soft, but most are ok. The one that germinated seems to have done so a while ago since it’s like 1,5 cm long from the base. I put it into soil today.
For the pine tree, I used the toilet paper method too, instead of using the substrate like on the 1st post. I have put it into a bigger pot this time so I don’t have to transplant it too soon.
Mom brought a cutting of coleusandChrist thorn from her work. After a week in water the coleus developed some roots so I planted it yesterday, I’ll take pics of them next time. Also, despite the bugs, the dahlias’ buds are still growing, I can’t wait to see their flowers.
The nasturtiums have grown a lot, there are some white spots on some leaves, I have to check if it’s a disease. Speaking of which, the aphids are totally gone thanks to the hand soap method! The rose has started opening two rosebuds, and there are two new closed buds, I’m so happy, it’s as if it’s saying “Thanks for taking care! I’m healty again, look at these flowers!”
Some days ago I planted some tagetes andstatice, I found seeds in a shop and even though it said they had to be planted a couple months ago, I tried and just two days after that there were some seedlings growing! Tagetes is the national flower of México, a friend that lives there gave me the idea.
There are some pics of the sweet willams (the tiny ones are the seeds that I sprinkled the day I put the bigger ones in that pot) and poppies, and the last one are the dahlias on their new pot. I divided them in two pots, I’m thinking about giving the small ones to someone since I don’t have that much space! About transplantation, the yellow callas that grew together in that single pot were in reality growing from just one tubercle, so I just put it in their original spot, there were 10 stems growing together, in the other callas I transplanted the biggest one had just 3…
In the spirit of making the most of eveey season we visited two National Trust places today: Wakehurst Place and Nyman’s . Still so much botanical beauty around despite it being middle of September. . . . . . #nationaltrust #englishgarden #dahlias #nymans #wakehurstplace #knittersofinstagram #liveauthentic https://www.instagram.com/p/BnrVRyHHasy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nselqjkg2peh
