Indoor Gardening . . .
Thanks for the beautiful comments on my last post you guys :-)
When last we left our intrepid violet grower (um,that would be me) . . . hell, I hate referring to myself in the third person. When last I left you guys on the topic of violets, I had just had a great show at the Illinois State show.
Today, the Illinois African Violet Society had its Fall Meet, and we had a great group of people! Wonderful panelists, including Morgan Simmons, Gary Mikita and John Regan answered questions for part of the morning. We had a "Dawg" show, where people brought their worst plants (and hey - we all have them - in fact, I won two Best in Class for two horrible plants :-D). There was a silent auction, and a great lunch - a short business meeting, and then I talked about Growing plants for show and took a few of my dawg plants and demonstrated some grooming and repotting techniques.
I think I talked too much, but chatterbox that I am, once I get started, it's hard to shut me up. I was so lucky when I was a novice grower - I was taught by some of the best growers in Southern California and I try to share that knowledge when I can - I did a lot of name dropping today, something I don't usually do - but I like to give credit where it's due, and I would not be the grower I am, nor enjoy it as much as I do had not had a lot of great teachers. I think it went pretty well and I hope to see a lot of plants from the group at our next show.
And tonight, I put together my new light cart. It's the long one on the right. I have been playing around with the location of my stands. I have three of the 2' x 2' carts, one of which is in the basement. I thought about putting the new 2' x 4' cart in the basement, and then thought better of it.
I have three distinct growing areas in my home. My sunroom, which you can see in the photo, the back bedroom (AKA the Guest Room), and my basement. I like them all for different reasons.
The basement is perfect for the streptocarpus plants that I grow - not that many, but they like the cooler atmosphere down there.
Sorry for the sporadic blogging, but it's been really busy around this join
t lately :-)
And now, back to the cleaning - you can really tell the different between the two I just washed, and the ones below . . . I have my work cut out for me!
When last we left our intrepid violet grower (um,that would be me) . . . hell, I hate referring to myself in the third person. When last I left you guys on the topic of violets, I had just had a great show at the Illinois State show.
Today, the Illinois African Violet Society had its Fall Meet, and we had a great group of people! Wonderful panelists, including Morgan Simmons, Gary Mikita and John Regan answered questions for part of the morning. We had a "Dawg" show, where people brought their worst plants (and hey - we all have them - in fact, I won two Best in Class for two horrible plants :-D). There was a silent auction, and a great lunch - a short business meeting, and then I talked about Growing plants for show and took a few of my dawg plants and demonstrated some grooming and repotting techniques.
I think I talked too much, but chatterbox that I am, once I get started, it's hard to shut me up. I was so lucky when I was a novice grower - I was taught by some of the best growers in Southern California and I try to share that knowledge when I can - I did a lot of name dropping today, something I don't usually do - but I like to give credit where it's due, and I would not be the grower I am, nor enjoy it as much as I do had not had a lot of great teachers. I think it went pretty well and I hope to see a lot of plants from the group at our next show.
And tonight, I put together my new light cart. It's the long one on the right. I have been playing around with the location of my stands. I have three of the 2' x 2' carts, one of which is in the basement. I thought about putting the new 2' x 4' cart in the basement, and then thought better of it.I have three distinct growing areas in my home. My sunroom, which you can see in the photo, the back bedroom (AKA the Guest Room), and my basement. I like them all for different reasons.
The basement is perfect for the streptocarpus plants that I grow - not that many, but they like the cooler atmosphere down there.
Sorry for the sporadic blogging, but it's been really busy around this join
t lately :-)And now, back to the cleaning - you can really tell the different between the two I just washed, and the ones below . . . I have my work cut out for me!
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