microb's blog: Where have I been?

Still alive and well, just not blogging. Four months since my last blog but not much happened (I lie). No longer working at the zoo due to personality head butts and I'm retired and too old for that. Plus zoo is under new management by a young lady from Disneyland Florida and she wants to turn it into a theme park in my view. BUT I did retain leadership of the bi-annual plant sale. The sale we had in October had 20 vendors but made a little less money due to the rainy weather. Now, arguably the largest plant sale on the island. My angle is to keep contact with 20 vendor nurseries for good deals and there is already a waiting list of 3 new ones wanting to get in.
Plant obsession continues. I shook of the bad habit of ordering plants from Etsy after purchasing a grand array of about 50 plants which have gone from 2 inch pots when they arrive to some that are now in 2 gallon pots. Went on a plant buying binge with a friend last weekend. Unfortunately she only has a king cab pickup which we packed with plants. Only enough room to just get my foot in the passenger door when we left the last nursery with a box on my lap. Next time we take my E150 cargo van.
Gardening at home is pretty much unchanged. Created two new garden rooms in the woodpile garden - the hidden garden and the roundabout garden (traffic circle did not have a ring to it). Lots more space to plant more purchases.
Still pushing gravel out to forest pathways to fight the mud.
Not too much chainsawing now as most of the tree clearing has been completed within the current fence line. So just maintenance trimming.
Shook out 96 Amaryllis bulbs from their grass encased pots last week and repotted them. Plenty of bench space for them in a recently renovated shade cloth house.
Now have a collection of about 40 different philodendrons and really getting hooked on Alocacias and Colocasias, whatever their different is.
And thats about it. Will try and find interesting photos to post.

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