Garden: It’s raining!

Living in an area that is essentially a rainforest has its merits. One of them, obviously, is that some days I don’t need to water the plants. Instead, there’s a scramble to get certain plants out from under shelter and into the drizzle. Today, it was a decision between potential root rot versus gas-rich rain.

Every pot in that picture has a drainage hole – so none of them will truly be swamped, but not all of them have sit on pot risers. Hilariously enough, one of the most useful pieces I have on the deck is a soda bottle crate I found on the side of the road; very sturdy and makes a great base as a mini table. Other salvages were pot feet made from shattered terra cotta plant dishes. Two of them cracked over winter, and it was easy enough to break them further and tuck them under a few pots. There, in the bottom right, you can see them under a blue and grey pot.

Garden delivery!

Thank goodness Botanus in Langely is still doing deliveries. I’ve been looking forward to these plants for months!

So here we have a hosta in the black pot and the sedums from left to right: Wildfire, Lime Zinger, and Thunderhead. You can’t tell, but the hosta has a ridiculous root system, it needed that pot size.

Another two sedums: Atlantis and Carl.