I’m pretending it’s spring

It must be spring. Even thought it’s snowing outside and the coldest month of the average year is still ahead, my mind seems to be sure that it’s spring now. This happens every year. By the end of January I’m convinced that I have to start gardening again, even though there’s nothing I can do outdoors. What this means is that I start to either sow seeds or buy plants. And this week has been quite worrying. It has only lasted 4 days so far, and I have been buying new plants every day! These are house plants, of course.

On Monday I stopped by a local hardware store to find something that I can’t even remember what it was, because for some reason I walked directly to their garden department. I ended up purchasing flower pots and two different species of Calathea! On Tuesday I went to another hardware store (apparently I didn’t find what I was looking for at the first one the day before) and to not walk out empty handed, took home one Ficus pumila, an Asparagus setaceus, a cultivar of Nephrolepis exaltata, and a Codiaeum variegatum. On Wednesday I went to a grocery store, and carried home an unidentified cultivar of Dracaena. As if that hadn’t been enough, I went back there today only to buy 6 plants more. Most of them were two variegated varieties of Dracaena reflexa, and the one that wasn’t aDracaena was Asplenium nidus. Well… Yesterday I also bought 5 seed packets, but they aren’t plants yet.

 

I have had most of these plants before, then I have given them to someone as they have grown too large, and now for some reason I need to have them again. I already have other houseplants, so it’s not like I didn’t have anything green to look at. And to make myself feel even more guilty, I have to admit that I have been neglecting my older plants. They look quite dusty and they have been suffering for lack of light too. I should take them to shower, change the pots, start fertilising them, and maybe buy a couple of plant lights as the natural light that we occasionally have in winter is not enough.

So I figured out it might be a good idea to concentrate on writing or planning rather than buying new plants or seeds, since I already have a fridge stuffed with boxes full of seed packets and I really don’t want to be using all my money on house plants that I will be neglecting nevertheless. I will have 3 more months to waffle on about my garden and anything related before I actually can go out and do anything there. Maybe I could plan a purchase list for the summer… But I already have seedlings overwintering in their pots on my patio, so I can’t actually buy anything before I see if they still wake up after sleeping all winter long. So if you are reading this, be warned: I will write more just to keep myself occupied. 

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