Greenhouse Migration

I cleared my schedule today to move the Clivia plants and Cymbidiums into the greenhouse. The weather is getting cold fast and I’ll be traveling the next two weekends so it had to be today.

In an effort to make up for spring and summer neglect, I sprinkled organic plant food on these plants about a month ago just ahead of the first autumn rains. Today, as I cleaned them up and topped up their potting soil, I watered each pot well with Orchid Love organic (smelly) orchid food–a capful to a two-gallon watering can full of rainwater. My hope is that the food will help the plants set lots of buds for next spring. It might be too late, though. Most of the plants looked pretty healthy and happy.

I stuffed them all into the greenhouse and did a little clean-up in there. The patio plants need to come in, as well–I’m hoping to have time to do that tomorrow.

Greenhouse filling up with Clivias and Cymbidiums.

There were a few other things to photograph around the greenhouse and yard today.

Gorgeous leaf that found its way from the neighbor’s Norway maple to the native plant garden. A million more of those leaves will end up there in the coming weeks as that big tree sheds all its leaves.
Lots of fungus among us this autumn, including some big ones–this in the memory garden.
These huge mushrooms are in the raised bed with kale and blackberries!
Lovely flowers on this Streptocarpus.
Spectacular color and markings.
Late-blooming Nicotiana sylvestris in the memory garden.
Closer photo–this plant could bloom for another month or more.
Colchicums blooming in the memory garden. These were just planted in August.

Another Colchicum showing off.