No excuses!

We've been given the first taste of fall...so I dragged the bags of dirt out, and the spade, and the new pots, and the plants that wanted to be repotted.

Cool, not raining, but cloudy, great gardening weather!

 I carefully removed a complete stem growing off the taller of these 3 succulents, and planted it. I can't find a photo of it, but I remember putting it somewhere!

 The original jade plant is having lots of babies, so I left it in it's pot.

 Oh, here's the stem off the first one, planted with some jade leaves, some of whom have already begun to sprout.

 This tiny lady has lots of babies, but I only took 2 off, gently pulling a few roots along with them.  I'm leaving the rest there while she gets used to the new pot.

 I proved myself a messy gardener, but wanted to record the plants more than show off the pots. There are a couple of jade leaves also at one end in this planter.

 This may not be a planter, since it doesn't have any drainage...but it looked just right for the branches of jade that I removed from the parent. It will need moisture for a bit since the branches didn't have any roots yet. They are leaning against the other pot. But some other leaves had already started to sprout, so they're in there to encourage the big ones!

And here are the 2 babies as well that I took from the spikey mom, which fortunately aren't prickery spikes.

I also did some mint, as well as the orchid.  Don't know why I forgot to take their pictures.

Finished planters

For the little succulents...

 These are small! But it was easy to make them and glazing gave me some test results.

 First dipped into Satin White, then just the rim dipped into Raspberry Red.

 Really!

 White with rim dipped into Plum

Celadon with rim dipped into plum. I love drippy glazes on the rim, so they never get into running onto the kiln shelf!

I actually bought "cactus" dirt for them...so will be getting some under my fingernails soon...and can show off the results! It's all a process.

The planters

I've started plants in my own planters.

They are all out on my front porch.  There are a couple of hanging plants that I didn't make, and at least one regular kind of pot.

The forgotten dish for the planter

A week or so ago...I mentioned a medium sized turquoise green planter (HERE) and concluded that I could use a tin pie plate under it.  I had completely forgotten making the dish for it when I threw the pot! (Something about being 76-1/2 years old perhaps?)

Look Barb, you signed it! It's yours!

As soon as I can, a new little plant will be added!

what to plant next...

I want to recycle all the plastic tubs of plants and use pottery/ceramic planters that I've made.

But which plants should go in which pots? Next decision.

 This can replace any one gallon pot easily.

 It's sister flew off the wheel just before I was going to trim it, so I bent it into a scalloped shape. 

And since I couldn't trim that extra 1/4 inch around the base, I fluted it to lighten the whole thing up.  Of course my planters havce to have good drainage.

And now I'm off for a bit of away time...but when I come back, I'll be purchasing seedlings! The usual last frost is Mother's Day around here.

Planters are finished!

The large round rustic looking planter has Matt Bronze Green glaze. 8 inch diameter, 6.5 inches deep

Larger still, the square planter is glazed with a satin green.  Each side has different shadings. 11.5 inches by 12 inches square, 5.5 inches tall.

Both of these are looking for new homes! What would you plant in them?

Today's quote:

One of the easiest and nicest gifts you can give to yourself is surrounding yourself with loving and kind people whenever possible. Daily Om

Hail and planters

I've been busy, sorry about no post yesterday.  Here are some pics from the last few days.

Thurs. evening we had a hail storm. It didn't do too much damage to my plants, but a couple of dove eggs came out of the nest and landed on the ground. Sigh.  They will be starting over again soon.

Front porch container garden

All the white on the ground is hail.  Temperature went from 90 to 74 in 2 minutes.  Brrr.

I built a couple of new planters finally. 

These are from recycled clay, and a neighbor was interested in them...I hope she may buy one or the other, but I can sure use them if she doesn't.

Today's Quote:

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.  Oliver Sacks