Ugh, this cold is unbearable! I had to pull out the winter coat and there’s even snow on the ground, but at least the distraction of the 10 Days of Plantness can help me through. My friend Kimberley made it official with a few new plant purchases, and of course what kind of friend would I be to abandon her at this moment, so out into the snow I went to pick up milk, bread, and a couple new houseplants. “Why are you going all the way there for milk!?” was the question, but I’m sure you know as well as I do which groceries also have excellent plants, so driving a few extra miles is worth the trip, but I still got a sigh and an eye roll when I mumbled “plants” when I hastily walked out the door. Apparently some people don’t embrace new holidays but I do and when I came back with a few new plants no one even thought to criticize. Maybe it was the two boxes of pizza I was also carrying, but after the feeding frenzy settled someone other than myself mentioned the flowers were nice so I think of it as a win.
Mini orchids ($9.99 a piece) and primrose (two for $5).
That’s four plants and that takes me through the first four days of Plantness. To celebrate properly I’ll need six more before the sun goes down on the 21st and that will be one plant for each of the ten days between Jan 12th and the 21st. Easy enough, right? “Yes, that makes sense” is what I hear you thinking, and no, I’m absolutely not just making this up as I go along. Remember though that if the 10 days are not celebrated properly it means winter will last 8 more weeks, but if done correctly witch hazel and snowdrops will be in bloom by January 22nd. You’ll be thanking me.
“I don’t have room for anymore plants”… is not an excuse. Buy something you’re very likely to kill is what I suggest. I’ll plant the primrose out in the spring and they’ll probably die during the summer, and the orchids will go to my mom on our next visit, and that will probably be for the best. Thanks for the pressure Kimberley, I wouldn’t have bought them otherwise and I’m quite pleased admiring them on this chilly night.
By the way, cut flowers count. Maybe my next six will all be bouquets and six vases surrounding these new additions would be very nice as well.
sorta like suburbia 
Lovely, I like a good excuse to buy plants and they are so beautiful!
Thanks! It’s not often I buy plants like this on impulse so it was a treat 🙂
I am holding off until the end of the month when there will be a sale of snowdrops at a garden not too far away.
Heh heh. Here there will be a snowdrop sale at the end of next month and I’m already sure nothing spent on these plants will come off the snowdrop budget!
Plantness seems like a lovely notion!
It’s been fun, thanks 🙂
Oh no! I’m behind now! So cut flowers count? I don’t remember putting that to a vote by the board, but it’s an idea I can support. Tom needs to be told.
When are we not behind!? I’m sure Tom will be excited by the idea of bringing you flowers for a pre-valentine’s day test run.
Those primroses are lovely. I don’t think I will manage to pick up any plants by the 21st, so I have only bought one bumper bunch of tulips within those dates…. but there are more than ten in the bunch so do they count?! Hope so, as 8 weeks of winter sounds awful. But actually rather more realistic!
Look forward to seeing your next six! 😉
Tulips are an excellent choice, and of course each counts for a day! I actually had a bunch of tulips in my hand last week, but they were more expensive than the orchids so I opted out. Maybe in another few weeks there will be more tulips here to choose from.
Hope things are a bit warmer for you this week!
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Ha ha, buy something you’re like to kill!
🙂 It’s the easiest way to avoid years of looking at something like a cactus which just gets bigger and bigger and refuses to die… yet you never really liked in the first place!
Yours look like the two new orchids that have joined my ranks. They are so pretty! A bunch of red alstroemeria showed up today, but it seems the primroses are late arriving at the stores this year (they were on the list). I brought up a pot of hyacinths from the cold storage instead, they are already pushing though. My cigar plant cutting is flowering now, too. Happy about that.
Monday the cold spell should break… one week of real winter… not bad!
Yes, a one week winter isn’t bad at all! I think when the snow melts this week there will be a few winter flowers opening, and I can get used to that 🙂
I would have snapped up a bunch of alstroemeria if I saw them, they’re always so interesting to look at, and maybe next year I’ll dig a few hyacinths to force inside! -he says but never does 😉
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