It finally arrived :-)

The warm and sunny weather sure took its time to arrive today, the morning was chilly and rainy so we didn’t go out for our morning walk until just before noon and it was still really cold. Then suddenly it changed and the temperature has risen to 20 C (68 F), the sun is shining even though there are big clouds in the sky and, of course, there is now a strong wind blowing.

     

That has helped the laundry to dry in five seconds so I really can’t complain too much 🙂 I don’t think it took fiver minutes after the sun started to shine through the gaps in the clouds before I heard the first mower 🙂 Yes the grass has grown pretty much but why can’t they just relax at least for one day before they start 🙂 🙂

     

I didn’t care about mowing the lawn, instead I’ve brought up almost all plants from the cool cellar. I only have four cacti down there still because I need to get more plants outside before I have enough space by the windows 🙂 I even brought the pawpaw seedlings I had down there outside, three of them but decided that the three I have indoors by the kitchen window can wait for a while. One never knows when we’ll get a nasty cold frosty night again.

The Camellias started to flower in the cool cellar.

 

I bought a hardy Fuchsia (Fuchsia magellanica) and it too was touched a bit hard by frost, like the trees I also got delivered late this week. So I decided to take a few cuttings that can over winter in the cool cellar neat winter. I took a few photos of how I do that that You can see here below. The Hardy Fuchsia doesn’t survive like a big bush here though but the roots survives and starts all over next year. It’s always best to put dry leafs over it all just in case we do get another cold winter. One can of course also have it as a pot plant and keep it light but cool during the winters.

The best soil to have while planting cuttings are usually sowing soil. I didn’t have any so I mixed ordinary soil with some sand from my garden, mix it well.
As You can see the cuttings did look a bit sad after the frost so I don’t know if they’ll work but it’s worth a try. I can take new ones later in summer.
One only need a short stem, just make sure that at the bottom there have been leafs. Take away those because that’s where the new roots will start to grow. This one didn’t have any leafs at all but they usually work anyway.
This one looks better. Two leafs taken away at the bottom and two leafs at the top. Most people think this is too short but it’s actually just enough.
Plant the cuttings along the edge of the pot, more oxygen will reach where the leafs will grow and the risk of them rotting because of too much water is lesser. Normally I don’t put a see through cover,, like plastic, around the pot but since there were hit by frost I thought it might help. Place the pot by a window that doesn’t get any sunshine and wait for them to grow to new plants 🙂

Tomorrow will be a bit cooler than today but still above 10 C (50 F) and then on Tuesday it’ll go back to more what we’ve had this afternoon, I do hope this was the last cold period until autumn arrives again, I’m really tired of the cold weather we’ve had lately. I wonder how Malkolm think about warmer weather, so far all his life has been pretty cold, all three months of it 🙂

Alma and Malkolm have been playing all day long so they are both now snoring loudly 🙂

Have a great day!

2 responses to “It finally arrived :-)”

  1. Caryn O'Keefe Avatar
    Caryn O’Keefe

    I’m glad the warmer and sunnier weather showed up for you. It’s brightly cloudy here and definitely cool. The wind has a chilly feel. I was going to take the dogs for a walk earlier. Got them all leashed up. Put my hat on. No sooner did we exit the house and step into the road than it started to rain. It was light rain but as we proceeded across the road it got heavier and heavier. So I swung us all around and headed towards the back swamp in the yard instead. If the heavens opened all the way, we’d be close to a door. The heavens didn’t open all the way but we still got a bit wet. The birds in the swamp were singing like crazy and it was late morning. Not the usual time for singing. I confirmed that there were red winged blackbirds back there. I’d been hearing them for a while but wasn’t sure as their song was not typical. There was also a Song Sparrow down there. Haven’t had one of those in the yard for years.

    I was going to weed whack the more shaggy bits of the lawn but now the grass is wet so I don’t have to. 😀

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    1. Christer. Avatar
      Christer.

      So not all negative with the rain then 🙂 🙂
      I would have done the same as You if the dogs hadn’t done it before me 🙂 🙂 They are now guessing we won’t get any rain the coming ten days?! Also it will stay warm according to their guessing 🙂 The only negative I can see with this is that it’s going to be hellish hot at my work place but I’ll take that as long as winter stays away 🙂 🙂

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