Regards to everyone in this green and cheerful community! I hope that all of you are doing more than fine. It has been a couple of weeks since I didn't come around to share the progress of my doings in the garden, and boy a lot has happened, so I have many things to say.
After transplanting the palm tree seedlings that I had in small pots, I placed two, three, and even four of the sprouts together on 12 L pots. I intend to move each one to a 20-30 L pot in time, but I will wait until they grow a bit more. Meanwhile, I can also save money to buy the big amount of soil that I will need, and the new containers as well.
I have the 22 palm tree seedlings lined up together under the shade of the neighbor's tree in my backyard. I hope that they like that place, survive the winter, the bugs, and my dog Pauchi who has been interested in plugging out some of my palm seedlings in the past. I placed big rocks in front of the pots, so it was hard for him to access them.
I bought two beautiful plants in the local gardener store, where the Brazilian lady is very kind, giving me advice and stuff. One of the plants is a small Rose, yellow, which I placed next to the other small red rose that I have.
The other plant that I got she called it "Chinese Fern", which I thought was very cute and has a curious form. I dug a hole and placed it on the soil, next to my little palms.
Talking about a curious-looking plant, I decided to release the monster from its cage. A couple of months ago, a workmate gave me a small piece of a purple plant, which I had previously told him that I thought was cute from a picture of his garden. He said that I have to "control this plant" and he recommended that I not plant it directly in the soil but instead into a small pot, because he said that this plant grows easily and so quickly that it will cover any space in short amounts of time.
The small piece that he gave me indeed rooted instantly on the pot that I placed it on, and then started to grow steadily until now that I even saw its roots going out of the pot from the bottom side, so I decided to give it a chance of freedom and expansion and I placed it directly on the soil in a spot in the garden close to the Jasmine little tree. Of course, I will be checking up on its growth and development, for it to take up only the space that I wish for it to cover. Maybe I will prune it in the future and grow it elsewhere.
Here, it is a very common plant, and it even grows on the streets, everywhere, and people don't seem to consider it a pretty plant, instead, they see it as an invasive weed, common and ordinary, but since I was not very familiar with it, I like its color and form.
The sowing of the past week.
Some of the tree seeds that I have sowed in the Arboretum are still in the meditation process, thinking whether they want to come out as trees or not at all. So I always think of alternatives to keep adding more in the case that those that I have already planted never germinate.
One of these days I was walking and going to class and I saw this gorgeous tree-like malvaceae, with lots of big, intense red color flowers on it, and while admiring it, I saw some branches full of seeds, so I wasn't going to miss the opportunity to add little sprouts of this beauty to my fantasy botanical garden.
I took a picture of the mother plant I took the seeds from, but it is not entirely flattering to the reality of how gorgeous and striking it is to look at when it is in front of you.
I sowed the seeds of the malvaceae along with some more oak tree acorns that I found these last week's walking with my dogs around the neighborhood, and other strange yellow seeds that I picked on the ground that I had never seen before in my entire life.
All these small pots containing the freshly sowed seeds went to the space where my palm trees were inside the arboretum, where the humidity is higher and they are covered from the sun, the birds, my dogs, and is ideal for the seeds to sprout.
Maybe I will stop soon of keep sowing new plants because autumn is nearly here and then obviously winter will come to slow the growth of everything, although it is not that cold here that it will kill the green.
I wish you to end your week wonderfully, and that March is filled with optimism and productive gardening activities. Until next time.
Cesar.