A Pearly Jug of Privet
It's good to have a more at-home week. I had been ignoring the cleaning needs in my kitchen but this week I'm working my way down a list: light fixtures, floor scrub, cabinets sorted and wiped down.
And the sitting room needed a deep clean. Out with the orchids past their prime. Out with the amaryllis bulbs I'm STILL waiting on. Not interested anymore!
More in the mood for a big jug of privet cut from the hedge. Oh, the subtle fragrance!
8 comments:
"pearly jug" - what a lovely description.
I noticed my lilies of the valley are now in bloom when I smelled their sweet fragrance underneath my washline yesterday.
FRESH and BEAUTIFUL.
Lovely! Your awesome photos of sweet, simple beauty inspire me and make me smile. Thanks for that.
I love your blog and the lovely photos you always have on it. I had to laugh at your jug of privet - here in New Zealand it is considered a noxious weed because it grows so rampantly.
Julie, it's a weed here too. It grows in the roadsides and the edges of the woods. Fortunately it doesn't invade the vegetable garden!
I brought a huge bunch of privet in the house once....and it was full of tiny insects, I had to rush it back outside and enjoy it on the porch!
I'm always love coming here. Not only for the beauty, but for all I learn here as well. I have wondered the name of that plant.
Farrah
In case you haven't already done this, Anna, I have a 100% success rate with the following amaryllis-encouragement method: let the amaryllis grow outside all summer (I just leave it in the pot and tuck it back behind the bushy peonies, where it's not as much of a gangly eyesore.) Then I bring it in when school starts in the fall, put it in a dark corner of the basement, and forget all about it for a couple of months. The foliage dries up and it looks for all the world like it's dead. Around Christmas I remove the dead stuff, water it again and put it in the sun. Green shoots start to show within a week and I have pretty blooms about a month later.
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