@cbunny41 - believe me, I don't normally work like this; I am a sloth. But the pollen count is ramping up, I am highly sensitive and soon will have to mostly stay indoors, so it is get-er-done time.
Re the 'Charismatic' images; it was overcast when I took them, and I did a "smart fix" in Photoshop to brighten the images, which may have intensified the standards color a bit. (It is still definitely a bicolor, or reverse bicolor, or whatever you call these things.)
It's too cool to be outside for long right now, so I am trying to psych myself up to make quick trips to the hardware store (vermiculite, plastic box, key copies, maybe a couple of flats) and the grocery store (random things). I still need to get to the nursery to pick up a couple of replacement plants, and also my Monrovia special order. (For those who don't know, Monrovia allows you to shop online, and they will ship to your local nursery-of-choice that they already ship to.
http://shop.monrovia.com/ This gives you a greater selection of plants than what the nursery may decide to stock.)
I should also make a trip to a
different nursery, to pick up a ceramic pot that will actually properly hold a #3 pot (which is what I put the dahlias into). (I have a matched pair of pots which one would think would be exactly the same size and shape, but no... one entirely holds a #3 pot, whereas the other one tapers too much at the bottom so the pot can't go all the way down, and sticks up.
) But with the kitchen garden still hanging over my head, so to speak, that will have to wait.
Speaking of the kitchen garden, the 'Flashy Trout Back' lettuce that I potted up now has some seedlings that look big enough to transplant out. I should really pot up the other two lettuces too... and maybe also the cucumbers. So much work, so little time/energy.
