Teal and Cake

Very Tired, but Down to Talk About Plants, Arts and Crafts, and Sometimes Other Things

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Strange furry flightless birds at the feeders this time of year.

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Five Mourning Doves, extra round.

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My tiny son is four years old today!

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(…has it really been five months since I last posted a plant?)

Here’s my Truncata on May 11, 2022 and October 13, 2024. Almost total leaf-replacement and probably two rounds of root-replacement.

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The caperatas decided to bloom in their ziplock bag.

I suppose that means it’s time to repot them.

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Roughly five months’ progress on my third pot of peperomia cuttings. The Caperata leaf and two Santorini leaves were gifted to me months after I set up the original pots, but I wasn’t about to just throw them away, so!

I really like the way these look together. I may just move them all into the same pot when they’re big enough.

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Smol Baby is three years old!

He’s come a long way since he lived in a toothpaste cap.

Still very tiny, but very loved.

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Excellent round birds have taken a liking to the deck furniture this season.

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Four-and-a-half months’ progress growing peperomias from leaves.

Equipment involved was just nursery pots, damp cactus soil, and quart-sized Ziplock bags, plus scissors to cut the leaves and a plant mister to spritz things down every other week.

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My Dionysos has some seasonally-appropriate sun coloration this time of year.

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It may not look like much, but this is the bushiest my Pulvinatas have ever been in the 2.5 years I’ve had them.

(Turns out they need twice as much water as I’ve been giving them. 🙃 The usual “let the soil dry out, wait a few more days, drench, repeat” method does not apply to Pulvinatas, apparently. Now I water when the soil an inch down is still slightly damp.)

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Matte-finish pot, matte-finish plants.

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I have been informed that the bird feeder is empty.

(This is not a surprise. The fact that this one actually, legitimately knocked on the door to get my attention, however, was.)

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New year, new deer.

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As it turns out, a squirrel-proof feeder is not necessarily deer-proof.

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May 27, 2022 and May 14, 2023.

Nothing scares me off of buying a plant as fast as a “don’t worry, everyone kills their first one!” warning, but this one came at a really steep discount, and, well.

I only water when the bottom leaves start to wrinkle, and it seems to be working out pretty well.

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My tiny son is still too small for even the smallest of my pots, but he’s outgrown the night cream container he’s been in for over two years, now.

Hopefully this vintage punch cup will let him feel as pretty as he looks.