I bought this spectacular houseplant Dracaena ‘Lemon Surprise’ at Sweat Peas Nursery in Birmingham.
Sweat Peas Nursery is directly across from my hair salon, Salon U, and I’m thinking of offering Mark an extra large tip to swivel my chair towards the window while he blows me out so I can gaze upon the plants and guess their names. – It’s one of my favorite games. – Note to my wonderful husband and children: ‘Blowing me out’ is not a sexual reference; Mark uses a hair blower…on my hair…that he just cut.
The background for my Dracaena is the Smith Lake Section 16 poster I’m taking to Alabama’s Forever Wild Land Trust Board meeting next Thursday, where I’m giving a little speech and asking them to consider purchasing 435 acres and 25,000 feet of magnificent shoreline.
The Smith Lake Section 16 land is a treasure that should be preserved for future generations, and shared with the public as part of the Forever Wild Land Trust. If you have not already signed our electronic petition, please do it now. And if sometimes I say something that slightly offends you, realize it’s not the land’s fault that I’m a crazy person.
It has taken me most of January to catch you up with what you missed in 2012, and now I need to catch you up on what you missed while I was showing you what you missed.
Lenten rose (Helleborus ‘Green Heron’)
You may be wondering about how Dale’s bees are doing. When it’s cold they hunker-down in the hive. Dale says they do one of those March of the Penguin things where everyone except the queen takes turns on the outside of a big ball of bees. Luckily here in the heart of Dixie we get lots of nice days so they can get out and enjoy the flowers.
I decided that after being in the garden since 2008, this ginger was big enough to divide.
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My non-gardening husband Dale said something silly the other day, “You don’t have much to do in the garden this time of year anyway.” This is NEVER the case in my zone 7 garden. I almost envy Northern gardeners who live with a thick layer of snow covering their frozen gardens, and spend January cuddled up in front of a roaring fire with a pile of seed catalogs.
Last week I divided this ginger (Asarum maximum ‘Ling Ling’). It should have been divided last fall, and if I waited any longer, I’d need to wait until next fall. The new leaves are just starting to come out, and it has those strange flowers.
Purple muhly grass
I cut back this purple muhly grass (Muhlenbergia capillaries), and I practiced my speech ‘The Need for Natives’ which is based on my 2011 blog ‘Not Enough People are Talking About This’. That picture of our native purple muhly grass is part of the PowerPoint.
I think I’ll register as a garden speaker if everything goes well. Please wish me luck with my upcoming speeches:
Feb. 6th The Need for Natives and A Few Great Native Plants
Feb. 7th Smith Lake Section 16 – Why Forever Wild should purchase Smith Lake Section 16