New Additions

I've bought 2 new seed packets, Viola & Forget-Me-Nots, with the intention of planting them on the now vacant window ledge.

Meanwhile, the last few weeks I've noticed a nursery that comes to the Farmer's Market in Columbus Park in Brooklyn that has many plants, including some hens and chicks cacti. I kept looking at them, & thinking no way do I have enough light for them, but then I read someplace they don't always need full sun. This week I planned to get one, but they were all gone. I found a cool site called (of all things) No Thyme Productions that has a whole page about Hens and Chicks, lots of different kinds of them. I was considering it, but I only want one. They ship Priority Mail for $8 no matter how many plants you order. I didn't want to spend $8 to ship one $4 plant. So today I went to Plant Works & asked if they had any. They had 2, a different variety from the Farmer's Market, the kind with pointy leaves. So I bought one for the ledge. It's in a plastic container, needs to be repotted. Plant Works has a great selection of earthenware pots, so I'm going to get a couple of small ones for the seeds, as well as a bigger one for the hens and chicks.

Who knows if any of these plants will survive what I have planned for them.

Coleus Fall Update

All the coleus is in pots now, and I've decided to hope they don't need as much light as I'd thought, because there is simply not room for all of them on that one windowsill. The other sill in the living room is the one that will get the blast from the heater once we start using it, and the kitchen window leads to the fire escape. The coleus in the tempera pot is now inside. There are 2 coleus in the living room, besides the ones on the sill, and one in the kitchen. And one more cutting, 3 leaves and a flower that broke off of the one in the kitchen.

We'll see if they'll adapt.