Ginger and Fir
Dec. 8th, 2007 05:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenOne of my ginger plants, which I'd gotten from a friend a couple of autumns past, decided to bloom this year. It started a little over a week ago, and the scent is amazing. When the sun hits the blossoms in the early afternoon, the scent will carry out into the hallway. I like spending some time in the livingroom anyway, but the ginger definitely adds a therapeutic touch to my time there. These ginger are bold plants, not for someone with too little space -- they're around 3 feet/1 meter tall, with big long narrow leaves. I also have a cardamom ginger, which is considerably more petite -- but I only got that this past summer, so it may simply be young.
I've been enjoying them so much, and uncertain of whether we had the time/energy to deal with any holiday decorating, that we weren't sure if we were going to have a tree this year... maybe a bough here or there, later in the month...
Well, we went for a walk on the hillside this afternoon, in part to check something out and in part to see how cousin Karla and William were faring with finding a tree for her to bring home.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fitzw ended cutting a branch off of one tree as a possibility and also to open up the viewing into the other trees in that spot -- being a rather old (30+ years) and somewhat neglected tree lot, many of the trees have multiple trunks. He trimmed the straight part off of the cut branch and it wasn't too bad, but a trifle narrow and sparse. So, we looked a bit more for one for Karla, found a nice little bushy one for her, and now have a tree for our apartment too.
It's standing in the snow outside the house for tonight, but tomorrow we'll see how fir and ginger go together...
I've been enjoying them so much, and uncertain of whether we had the time/energy to deal with any holiday decorating, that we weren't sure if we were going to have a tree this year... maybe a bough here or there, later in the month...
Well, we went for a walk on the hillside this afternoon, in part to check something out and in part to see how cousin Karla and William were faring with finding a tree for her to bring home.
fitzw ended cutting a branch off of one tree as a possibility and also to open up the viewing into the other trees in that spot -- being a rather old (30+ years) and somewhat neglected tree lot, many of the trees have multiple trunks. He trimmed the straight part off of the cut branch and it wasn't too bad, but a trifle narrow and sparse. So, we looked a bit more for one for Karla, found a nice little bushy one for her, and now have a tree for our apartment too.It's standing in the snow outside the house for tonight, but tomorrow we'll see how fir and ginger go together...
