{"id":2773,"date":"2010-02-21T17:41:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T01:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2010-02-21T17:41:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T01:41:35","slug":"garden-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=2773","title":{"rendered":"Garden update!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not even quite March, but I think it’s spring. Witness 60 degrees and sunny all weekend.<\/p>\n

Witness my dumbass peonies popping their brainless little heads out of the ground
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Spring or no, there’s just not a lot happening garden wise at this point. I can’t really plant anything besides shrubbery (all out of space) because it’ll freeze off. It may be nice and sunny during the day, but it’s still February at night. I’ve put cloches over the more delicate half of the clematis and over the dumbass peonies.
\nThe remaining crocuses are in full bloom, though, so are the pieris japonica.\"\"<\/a>
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\nI’ve always loved pieris japonica. The scent is just one more of those signals that says “HEY! WINTER’S ALMOST OVER!”
\nAnd, on the subject of spring and gardening weather, for those who hadn’t heard yesterday February 20, 2010 was Northern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day.<\/a><\/p>\n

The clematis is just aching to pop into bloom. I really wish it wouldn’t yet. We’ve certainly got hummingbirds that would appreciate it, but it’s still too dang cold out for any sort of pollinator and if it’s going to bloom I’d prefer it if there were some purpose behind it.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There’s really not much other garden news to report at this point. My Nuccio’s pearl camelia is almost in bloom.
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\nHe seems to have settled into his new spot quite nicely.<\/p>\n

Susan and I made an epic order from Territorial yesterday. In fits of optimism we ordered a whole bunch of peas, beans, and cucumbers, also three different varieties of melons that we have great hopes for because of this…..\"\"<\/a>
\nDoesn’t seem like much now, but when I finish the painting and get all the pieces knocked together that is going to be (do NOT blame me for the name, Andrew came up with it) John Coldframe.
\nWhen we had our windows washed last fall the window washer saw that there was a good deal of dried paint on what he assumed was the glass panel that is covering the stained glass window above our front door.
\nExcept it’s not a glass panel, it’s a plexiglass panel and when the window washer tried to scrape the paint off with steel wool it completely scarred up the surface of the plexi. It’s not so much use now for covering a decorative piece of stained glass, but it IS nice and translucent and so now that the window washer has paid to have the stained glass window covered over with a new transparent piece of plexi, there’s this translucent piece just sitting there and…….
\nDad and I spent much of yesterday cutting out and putting the pieces together. I primed and painted the bits today and, as I said, all I need is one more sunny day when I can put on the second coat of paint then bang the pieces into a rhombus (more or less) and I’ll have a wonderful little mini-greenhouse in which to baby plants.
\nHaving had some success with cantaloupes last year, I have great hopes for watermelons this year. WHEE! It’s spring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not even quite March, but I think it’s spring. Witness 60 degrees and sunny all weekend. Witness my dumbass peonies popping their brainless little heads out of the ground Spring or no, there’s just not a lot happening garden wise at this point. I can’t really plant anything besides shrubbery (all out of space) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-margarets-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}