Weaving, weaving

[altivo]

And I haven't even been drinking. Much progress on the remaining rug to be finished. With luck, I'll have it off the loom as early as tomorrow evening. It's called "Winter Sunset" and is a largely abstract design in white, beige, gray, and brown with a large irregular red spot near the middle. I'm really pleased with the thickness and the irregular bumpy texture that developed.

Cold enough this morning that the house windows were fogged inside, and we have double pane glass. The reading was about 41°F. It didn't get much above 60 all day, though at least the sun came out.

The crazy cyclamen plant that bloomed for a solid year and more 2008-2009 on my windowsill at work has started up again. When it finally went dormant I brought it home and let it rest, and Gary managed to wake it up again late this summer. It has about 20 red blossoms on it right now with more coming. I wonder if it will go nuts again the way it did before. There were as many as 40 blossoms open at once, and it just continued to produce them for at least 15 months continuously. I think the normally cool temperatures and morning sunlight at my window there were contributing factors. I also watered it with waste water from the aquariums, which I'll have to start doing again. The flowers are crimson, and the foliage is deep green with red veining, so it's altogether very handsome.

We think the hummingbirds are gone for the season now. Last week we were seeing as many as four at once, but it dropped off to singles by Friday and on Saturday we saw only one early in the morning. No sightings since then, at home or at work.

Now to bed, I think.

Comments

[shadow_stallion]

I never had any luck raising cyclamen which is a shame considering they are an attractive plant. Heh. It won't be too long before we have to bring all the outside plants in for the winter. That's always a fun chore and a mess almost all winter since the ferns will shed something awful between now and spring. :P

[altivo]

Cyclamen and cineraria like cool temperatures. Below 70F is good for them. But they do want bright light. The staff area at work is always cooler than the rest of the library, and my window faces east so it gets direct sun in the morning but is in the shade by the hottest part of the day.

They rot if the soil is too wet, so I water sparingly once or twice a week, using waste water from the aquarium if possible but those little fertilizer sticks you poke into a pot will probably do as well. When the flowering stops and the leaves all start to brown with no new growth apparent, stop watering and move the pot to a dry, cool place for a couple of months. Then you can bring it back out and start watering very lightly until leaf sprouts appear...

[moonhare]

And I haven't even been drinking

So that irregular red spot isn't wine?

We've got a geranium at work that just won't die, happily. It's root-bound in its medium pot but it keeps on blooming, shedding, and then blooming once more. No one here is amazed with that, they want to toss it.

[altivo]

We had some geraniums here that Gary pulled through several winters by bringing them into the garage and putting them under artificial lights with timers. Eventually, though, he failed to get them indoors quickly enough one year and they all froze.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

*hides near the cyclamen and watches for blossoms* I like those my mum had one that lasted quite a long time.

[altivo]

I used to think they were dead when they hibernated. But they aren't. You have to let them rest for a couple of months, than start watering them again.