🌿 COMING IN 🌿

"From December to March, 

there are for many of us,

three gardens––the garden outdoors, 

the garden of pots and bowls in the house, 

and the garden of the mind's eye."

Kathryn S. White 

The outside temperature today in the USDA
hardiness zone 8-b of Shaw Island, 
 is a wonderful 50°F but some garden pots are 
 inside on the Douglas fir shelf in the sun,
reserved for their winter quarters. 
 Glassybaby "Elf" snuggles with pots of
"Christmas Cactus" (Schlumbergera) on the left,
a small genus of 6 species native to Brazil.
 On the right is the common "Asparagus Fern"
(Asparagus aethiopicus) native to S. Africa.
She prefers to live potbound while helping to
clean the indoor winter air. Easy going, 
but likes humidity of wet gravel under her pot
to enhance her complexion. Propagation of
the latter is by division with a handsaw or
by planting the seeds in spring.

Anno thirteen December 2017.