13 Friday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, datura, flowers, garden, ledge, moments, nature, plants, pods, seeds, weather, white, widow
going to see if these datura seeds will dry on the window ledge as it is getting too cold outside…
these are from the white ones, which amazingly, are my favourite, lol…
hard to tell, but the purple (mauve really) ones are much smaller, but the plants grow like crazy…
so I am hoping they will dry and give me a good number of seeds for next year;-)…
fingers crossed…
26 Saturday Aug 2023
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the volunteer purple datura in the front garden has grown huge over the summer…
when I was out watering the other day I noticed that many of the seed pods had already popped open so I went out and collected some for next year…
this one is a shade of mauve and opens upwards rather than hanging down…
the flowers are also quite small…
the seeds have already started to pop out into the bowl and I will let them dry a bit more before putting them into an empty pill bottle to store for the future… and I will be sure to label them;-)…
in a pot in the garden there is another white datura… this flower is much bigger and also opens up rather than down…
I will save some of those as well, being careful of the prickly bits, lol…
10 Monday Apr 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, datura, garden, glass, happy, light, moments, morning glories, nature, planted, plastic, seeds, sprouts, time, widow
finally got the seeds into the soil…
so far, there are morning glories as well as purple and white daturas planted… last year I didn’t remember to start any of the daturas, so am excited to see how they will do this year…
started with plastic wrap on top, but then I found some glass in the basement which covers the pots nicely…
I am turning the light on first thing in the morning, and off just before I head to bed;-)…
now to wait for some sprouts…
26 Sunday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, datura, flowers, garden, moments, morning glories, nature, plants, purple, squish, widow, winnow
been collecting seeds for the last week or so…
the morning glories are very simple… I just put one hand under the little pod and squish it with the other… then I winnow the part holding it together by blowing over my hand… the excess blows away and the seeds remain and can be popped into a container…
the datura are a bit more complicated… the seed pods are covered in very sharp spikes which try to hurt me, lol…
I now have a container for each of the two types I have grown this year… the lovely white ones and the smaller, but cute, purple ones…
it is best to wait for the pods to start cracking as they dry, which makes removing them slightly easier… the dryer they are, the easier to remove…
I have quite a collection…
29 Monday Mar 2021
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alyssum, big girl pants, blessed, dahlias, datura, flowers, garden, moments, nature, plant, soak, Spring, widow
did a bit more planting…
already have grape tomatoes and milkweed going…
added white alyssum and dahlias… I am not expecting anything from the dahlias… I brought them in and bagged them in the fall, but they don’t feel full, so we will see if anything pops up… if not I already have new ones ordered which should come sometime in May…
also put datura and morning glories in to soak before they get planted…
found this sunflower smiling at me in one of the planters where I will be putting morning glories, lol…
16 Monday Nov 2020
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I brought in one of the pots with datura in it, hoping it would last through the winter… I didn’t spray it with soap like I did for the other plants I brought in…
I have now discovered that it brought aphids into the house and they were feasting on my avocado plant…
I put the avocado in the tub and soaked it with the soapy water and covered it with a bag… after leaving it for a day I removed the bag and put the plant in a room without any plants in it… there were still lots of aphids so I cut off some leaves and nearly drowned it in the soapy water…
then I cut down the datura to the base… after soaping it up I will watch to see how it does…
fingers crossed that this will get rid of them and the avocado will be happy…
03 Saturday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, datura, flowers, frost, garden, move, nature, overwinter, plants, weather, widow
the majority of the plants in the garden and front yard have been hit by the frost…
I had been waiting to bring in one of the daturas but I couldn’t decide which one to use…
this morning the decision was made for me as two of the three plants I had been looking at were dead, lol…
I went out and was able to lift the remaining planter and then carefully moved it step by step into the house… then I put it onto a towel, lifted a portion of the carpet, and dragged it to the window…
yay for me;-)…
looks great… now to see if it overwinters…
02 Wednesday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, birds, Cornell Lab, datura, family, flowers, garden, learning, migration, moments, nature, weather, widow
it was rather chilly yesterday morning… I wore pants, a long sleeve shirt and my spring/fall jacket for my walk;-(…
after the walk, with my daughter on the phone, I had breakfast and checked out the garden, but it was still chilly, lol…
deadheaded the datura in the front flower bed, did some reading and watched a very informative webinar on bird migration…
seemed like a busy day, lol…
25 Tuesday Aug 2020
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big girl pants, careful, datura, flowers, garden, gift, moments, nature, photos, plants, poisonous, widow
spent some time in the front flower bed tidying the datura…
they are doing great… I’ve been trimming the spent blossoms so that the plant might make more flowers;-)…
also made sure that all the debris went into the pots and washed my hands afterwards as they are poisonous…
the other day I may have put my hand to my lips and had a strange sensation so am being more careful…
final photo from inside the house…
21 Tuesday Jul 2020
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big girl pants, datura, helpful, moments, Purolator, seed pod, shopping, Technology, waiting, widow
had decided to stay in the house to be sure I’d be there when Purolator arrived with a parcel…
apparently they tried to deliver it a few weeks ago… they didn’t leave any notification, so it wasn’t until I went searching for the tracking number that I discovered they had been here… it was interesting as I have a note on the front door advising to go to the back door if I’m not in the house… not sure how I missed it…
last week I called and spoke to someone who advised the parcel was waiting at the depot… after we talked she arranged for them to bring it back on Tuesday…
when it was delivered at 11:30 the driver said he’d been away on vacation and the person who filled in for him wasn’t very experienced… he even apologized for the mixup…
we had a nice chat about the datura seed pod on the plant by the front door, lol…
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