Bright lights and perennials
- Subject: Bright lights and perennials
- From: "Tiede, Karen E" k*@eds.com
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 10:07:46 -0500
My "Holiday" tree traditionally "blooms" the Sunday after Thanksgiving,
regardless of the temperature, weather, rain, anything. Reliable, it is.
And funny, too, that it quits blooming the Sunday after New Year's. It's
been changing over the years--when I first moved into this house, it was
simply a night bloomer, with little white "flowers" that came on at sunset
and went out at about midnight. A few years later, it developed "CD
flowers*" that glittered in daylight and sparkled under the lights at night.
This year, the single blossoms are going tetraploid**, and it may bloom a
day or two ahead of schedule--I have to work at a craft show all weekend
after Thanksgiving and won't be able to perform my end of the blooming
miracle. Could be a good thing to do Thanksgiving morning.
* Glue dead CDs together (I use GE Silicon II caulk; holds up to the weather
better than real glues), shiny side out; hang from tree branches. I
decorate a crape myrtle.
** I have a day-job with a computer company. We moved this year--cleaned
out many offices. I befriended the tech support guy and asked for all the
dead CDs. Got thousands. My single blooms are now CD chains of 9-10
double-sided CDs, drilled and strung together. Expect to hang 10-20 each in
about 3 crapes. Plus lights.
--Redefining yard art in USDA 7A, central NC.
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