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Re: Ready for Winter

>How has the summer treated you (gardening wise that is)?

Not too badly.  My indoor plants have done fairly well.  A mini dendrobium
orchid bloomed beautifully, my African violets did alright but I think need
stronger lighting on their stand.  A yellow African violet I started as a
leaf a year ago has been blooming like crazy.  I've had to do a lot of
repotting and rearranging due to our naughty cat.  One night a mosquito hawk
(a nasty long-legged bug) flew into the house and into my African violets,
and the cat went crazy and jumped right into the middle of them on the light
stand.  Then I went crazy. :-)

One thing I'm not happy about is my beautiful lipstick plant (aeschynanthus)
collapsing.  I think I'm going to just throw it away, I have a bad feeling
it has something wrong with it and I don't want whatever it is to spread to
my other plants.  This plant always bloomed well for me and always received
a lot of complements.  I bought it as a small bargain plant 4 years ago for
$1.99 and I hate to see it die.

Slightly related to indoor gardening... my container plants did much better
this summer than last summer, probably because I actually remembered to
water them this time!  A hosta in a wooden tub came back more beautiful than
ever, though it didn't bloom like I'd hoped it would.  The cat got stuck
outside for a day and decided to use my planter of coleus as a litter box,
so those all died.  My 'Heidi' miniature rose was quite sickly for a while
(spider mites), but bounced back nicely and is still blooming with pretty
little pink flowers.

Cami
Oregon
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