On Wednesday, I was looking at my poor peace lily, which I keep on my desk at work. It’s good at reminding me when it needs watering – all the leaves droop completely. If I water it in the morning, when it’s in such a state, it perks up completey by the end of the day – it’s great! The bad thing is, it doesn’t like draughts or the cold (a bit like me, really!) but of course, the office is air-conditioned, which means it’s freezing all day (I must buy a thermometer, so I can see just how cold it really gets – I sit there with goose-pimples half the time!), so its leaves go blotchy yellow and the tips go brown and dry. I’m not entirely pleased about this, but I like having a plant at work. All the work-provided ones are spiky, unfriendly ones, whereas mine is nice. It doesn’t flower anymore either, because of its unhappiness.  Anyway, I lamented my plant’s plight to A, who sits next to me, and I felt one of my urges (not sexual, before you start). The urge was to create a pot garden at home! My back garden is paved, and now that the weeds have mainly gone (thanks to G for that!), it’s a bit empty. Actually, I think that G planting my garlic in his garden may have planted the seed (pardon the pun) in my mind to do this. I went to B&Q yesterday after work, and purchased a blue pot and saucer and a flowering plant – a coronopsea or something. It’s meant to produce yellow flowers with an orange/red ring around the base of the petals.

Anyway, today I formulated The Plan. I tootled off to B&Q and bought a blue plastic trough to match yesterday’s pot and three more flowering plants to put in it. One is a fuchsia (and may Felicity rest in peace) with red/purple flowers and one is some kind of plant also with purple/red flowers and the other one has pale pink flowers with green/purple leaves. The latter is in the middle of the trough. That wasn’t The Plan, though, that was just continuing on from yesterday…

The Plan was to plant a Herb Garden. I bought two terracotta troughs (too small, it turned out) form B&Q and a rosemary plant. I bought from Tesco a huge parsley plant (should have got a small one), a huge coriander plant (ditto), two basil plants (should have just got one), a mint plant (which I doubt I’ll ever use – oh – I can put it in Pimms!), a chive plant and a dill plant (I can’t stand dill – it’s just got pretty foliage). They’re all crammed in these two containers (with special container compost, of course!). In one, there’s the parsley in the middle, with chives at the back on the right. The mint is in front of the chives. On the other side of the parsley, the dill is at the back and one of the basils is at the front. In the other one, the rosemary is on the left, the coriander on the right and the other poor little basil squashed up in the middle. I’ll have to get bigger troughs or another one or something.

Oh, and now I’ve just spoilt the surprise. The suspense has gone out the window. Damn it!

And it’s not even exciting!

And just for the record – I won’t kill them *pout*

Well, ok, maybe I will.

The one I got yesterday hasn’t died yet though *beam*

Tell the world about this!

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categories: Life and Stuff
tags: gardening, herbs, plants