>Today was a gray, wet day, with intermittent showers of rain and sleet. Really; this didn’t feel like spring, but rather like autumn.
After work, though, I’d arranged to meet a friend for a few beers at a traditional Copenhagen basement bar, but as I had an hour to kill I decided to walk there slowly. Well… Oops…
Yes, I bought 3 more pots of muscari bulbs. They were dirt cheap, though; less than 4 US$ for the three pots packed with bulbs, and I must confess I was slightly inspired by the fact that some other garden blogger (I forget who) wrote in the not-so-distant past about how muscari bulbs had been one of her first and best garden purchases, and I really loved that sense of sheer envy she made me feel. Also, I’ve always loved muscaris; their look, their scent, their subtleness.
Also, after buying the 3 pots of muscaris I ended up accidentally buying two pairs of shoes, but that is of no importance.
Also-also, I had a lovely couple of hours with my friend and she’s agreed to help me with the curtains for the summer house if I help her mend her sewing machine, so it was a perfect after-work session.
>Sowing sewing sow and sew ;~)
>Hehe… True! I always mix those up, but it has now been corrected.
>always a good purchase if you can plant it in your garden…
>Hmm, how about a photo of the shoes, too:~DAnd the curtains when they completed…Aliceaka Alice's Garden Travel Buzz
>Donna: I can always find room for a few bulbs, surely… Especially early-flowering bulbs, and ESPECIALLY when they are pretty and fragrant.Alice: I'll see what I can do about the shoe-pic. As for the curtains they're just a stand-in for doors on the lower kitchen cupboards; red-and-white gingham with 1cm squares. Very grandmother-ish, but that goes quite well with the general feel of the summer house.
>That does sound like the perfect after work session, though personally I would skip the shoes in favour of more plants. One reason I am grateful to work from home nowadays – I need fewer pairs of shoes!
>Janet, don't forget that I AM a flâneur gardener… And a flâneur needs shoes to wander aimlessly about town! (Also, remember that there really is a limit as to how many plants I can move by public transport and also since the beds are not ready yet I can only support so many plants in pots in the courtyard…)
>Hi Soren,Muscari is a great Spring plant we just love them. Smiled at your amusement regarding sowing, I am always doing things like this and of course the spell checker can do nothing with it. How about a (gray) day, naw! maybe in America.
>Alistair: I'm glad I'm not the only one (though I quite suspected it must be a fairly common mistake). As for muscari? "Muscari IS love"…
>Muscaris are really beautiful, it would have been a mistake not to get them at a bargain.
>Danielle & Kai: Thank you! Always nice to get some affirmation that impulse buys are actually – at times – sensible…