Thursday, November 3, 2011

A bad case of the I-don’t-want-to’s…

I’m procrastinating. I need to get out in the garden and put things to rest for the season. I’ve still got tender things that need to have cuttings taken and/or dug if they are to live (Blue Senecio, Graptoveria, and Ensete maurelli just to name three) And there are many others that need to be moved out of the near constant rains that lay ahead and into the “greenhouse”. But I don’t want to. It’s not like I have much time (34 degrees last night). And it’s not like I can hold off the bad weather by hoping that I’ve got another day (lots of rain in the forecast after today) Best to just get layered up (its 37 cold degrees at 9:45 am), get out there and get to work. But I don’t want to. Sometimes gardening isn’t fun. Don’t tell anyone that I said that.

15 comments:

  1. I know EXACTLY how you feel....

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  2. Do all those beauties in the last picture stay in the ground? I know what you mean. I have just moved all my tenders into the house and greenhouse becasue it is going to freeze tonight. Then I have to take out all my A, desmettiana because I know they won't make it through a cold winter. Rain is a problem here, rain followed by a freeze is a sure killer. Just think on this. the rewards of saving those plants are great.

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  3. I soo understand this problem! It's amazing how november creeps up on us!! it's also crazy how much work we can make for ourselves! Today I'm working on my gardening "to do" list... the true procrastinator in me :P

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  4. Just imagine how bad you will feel if you don't bundle up and get those babies protected!

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  5. Sometimes you just have to listen to your instincts, if you're not in the mood sometimes it's not worth fighting it and just go with the flow :) The garden is still looking great, take it easy and enjoy it for now. Soon you will naturally be in the mood to pack and tidy up and things will get done faster than you think.

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  6. "Sometimes gardening isn't fun" - yeah, I hear you. I should be out trimming back the dead leaves to clean things up a bit, but I'm not. I think gardening is much more fun on warmish, sunny days!

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  7. Linda, I hope you find the inspiration to get out there and do it!

    Lancashire rose, oh yes, nothing in the last picture will move. The Echium (on the right) will probably get toasted when we hit the cold temps, c'est la vie. That photo was meant to show how empty the patio looks now...but I really didn't get close enough for that! Yes it's the rain + freeze here too, and you called it! Exactly why I'm doing the work...I want to save them all!

    Louis, may you make good progress on your list!

    Darla, you are right, of course. And doing it at your leisure sure beats running around like a crazy woman at the last minute.

    Mark and Gaz, actually I was going on three days of listening to my "it'll be around when you feel like it" voice, it was time to just make myself do it. Writing this post was my last bit of defiance before I got to work. The "greenhouse" pictures are my after shots. Work done...I feel better. In fact I even did more today, pulling out the pond plants I want to winter-over.

    VW, exactly...the warm weather pulls me out there much easier. You guys up in Spokane have already had a killing frost this year right? But no snow yet?

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  8. Awe man that doesn't sound like fun at all, but you don't want to lose your precious succulents!

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  9. And doing what you are doing is easier (and less expensive) than just getting it over with and moving to San Diego, where you don't have to bring much in:-) It is obvious you take good care of your seasonal plants, too!

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  10. I've had a dose of that procrastination bug too, lately! It's so hard to get an early start when an early start means working in such cold temps. Bummer that we've just had probably our last blast of sun till spring.

    Is that an Acacia pravissima in that foliage close-up?

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  11. Oh man, I know exactly how you feel. It's not helping that sun is setting so early. And thanks for the heads up that I can't leave my blue senecio outside. :)

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  12. Megan, exactly. Do you guys ever have to do any protecting down south?

    DD, can you even imagine that move? OMG. One big U-haul for the house and a second for the garden!

    Allison, it is an Acacia pravissima, a large one. I've got a couple small ones that actually survivied in the ground last winter. They were pretty beat down and it took them awhile to come back but still the lived!

    Heather, glad to provide a community senecio service!

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  13. I read this post yesterday but didn't comment then. Instead, I went outside and gathered in all my agaves instead. Now I can comment today to say "thank you" for helping me get my plant-moving mojo working!

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  14. Instead of getting my work done I packed up the car and drove to California 11 or 12 days ago! Now I'm back in Portland, it is cold and gross, and I do not want to finish unpacking the car.

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  15. Suffering from DunWanna myself. Note my presence here rather than out in the garden....

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