What did I make today?
Today I finished wrapping all the promo soaps, and made, filled and labeled 50 tiny spritzer bottles with an astounding essential oil blend emulsied with a small amount of perfumer’s alcohol. (Else the oil clogs the spritz mechanism.)
Tomorrow I should be able to get the bags all put together, and hopefully shipped out first thing Monday morning. I need to remember to create one really great goodie bag for the fabu chick who is repping my products to all these potential new clients. She’s been fantastic.
And…I found out that another one of my fave artists is willing to trade me art/books/etc for soap. I’m goign to have the most eclectic fantastic art collection in the history of collectors. Sure, I may not have Monet, but damn it, I’ve got Clive Barkers, James O’Barr, handwritten poems from Neil Gaiman, a signed bristol board of a Doonesbury strip that I really wanted, and bunches of goodies from art gallery owners. Yay! Of course, I can’t put a lot of what I own on the walls, because Boy is way too young for me to explain things like Clive Barker…but some day, some day, I’m goign to break out all of my tubes of art. The place is going to look like a comics museum. Hee.
That reminds me. I can’t do it this month, but next month, I want to buy another load of Gardener’s Delight for the Dallas Organic Garden Club. It made one hell of an impression out there, and now it’s time to start expanding. (When you get the four-star review in Taunton’s Fine Gardening and the Carnivorous Plant Newsletter, you’ll know I’ve been busy.)
Coolios. I’ll make sure to keep some aside for you.
Hey, question; is there anything that Boy and I can plant now that will bloom in the winter? I mean, I know I should be transplanting my lilies and stuff soon, if I want them to propagate in different beds, and the daffodils could stand some thinning, but other than evergreens, is there anything that survives winter?
If you’re keeping it outside, no: even if the temperatures don’t drop, the diminished sunlight will make everything go dormant no matter what you do. However, I can think of lots of things that can bloom through the winter if you keep them inside or in a greenhouse with supplemental lighting. About the only plants I can think of right off the top of my head that will bloom in winter are amaryllis and Christmas cactus, and neither will last long on the back porch during a Dallas winter.
Yeah…you’ve seen the jungle. Anything else that tries for a spot on the southern windows is going to be eaten by any number of predatory houseplants.
The lemon tree is barely holding it’s own.
But the orchid is blooming again! The new orchid…not blooming. It dropped it’s “buy me!” blooms, and is now seemingly concentrating on creating a couple of gorgeous thick waxy dark green leaves. But then, the other orchid took almost 5 years before it bloomed, and then only when it was in a pot way too small. Poor thing really needs a transplant, but I’m terrified to do it. I’d be heartbroken if something went wrong.
Speaking of plants who threatened to die…KARED is back! She’s blooming right now. Not many, but she’s got 4 or 5 blooms. Bless her, she was too evil to die. She’ll live to eat the neighbor children….yay!
So, lilies and daffodils and jonquils and whatever else I have that are bulb plants…do I wait for their greenery to die, or does it really matter when I move them? I want to move some of those daffodils ( I think that’s what they are) from the front by the door and put some in the back to fill out the new kidney-shaped flower bed. I just don’t remember if they or the lilies ever die back. I’m not sure they do except in crazy freezing.