Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening Summer 2013 Part 3, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
cat--

My elderly cousin (now long deceased) used to live in Portland.
Her gardens and flowers were to die for! She just had this knack--
and the weather was always nice. Cooler--a lot of rain...

I was there at least twice--she always went on sight-seeing trips
around Oregon, and I got to tag along..The lakes!!! The Columbia River!!
The waterfalls...MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...................

Anyway--back to old Baltimore.
Felt lazy today--and it was overcast and it rained about 3 times.
Easy for me--as I can always continue working under my patio roof.
So cool there too...like another world....

I did a lot of cuttings and potting them up. Lots of "Inky Fingers" Coleus.
Cut my BIG "bush" back pretty good. Will have lots for the Swap.
Next year--I plan to grow these in a HB. They grow SO big and hang nicely.

Also took about 8 more cuttings from my neighbor Olga's Fig Tree.
She is not home yet--and she would not notice it anyway. It is so huge!
She is coming home on the 12th. Need to do a bit of weeding......

My Brazilian Plume did not bloom well at all. It is very large--and it also
sits, kind of, right by my 24/7 patio light--so it never gets any total darkness.
I wonder if that is it???
I may take some cuttings of this one too. A bit large to bring inside...
Hmmm--I am starting to get a bit crazy with taking cuttings...
Unless you all ask for some of these--I will be stuck with them....:o(
Of course--there are several serious gardeners at my HD as well...

Gita
This was all the blooms I got....puny...