In case you haven’t noticed, I’m an activist. I cannot sit idle by while the world goes to Hades in a handbasket. I’m one of those people who stand up, speak out and work to make things better. This whole coup the Liberal, NDP and Bloq Party are trying to pull off just steams me… I wrote a rather passionate letter to the editor and heartily applaud what our Conservative Government did to put a stop to the shennigans of that bunch of anarchists sitting in the opposition benches of parliment! When I vote I expect my vote to be respected. I don’t expect a bunch of power hungry politicians to usurp my vote and the votes of millions of other Canadians.
For a gardening enthusiast, I digress from my main topic… gardening… I couldn’t help it, I love politics too… but that’s me. I just couldn’t put it off.
But sometimes I procrastinate terribly. Sometimes I put things off with Great intentions to do it “tomorrow”. Sound familiar? Politicaly that can be a disaster. Financially that can be a disaster and in Family life that can also be a disaster, but procrastinating is my middle name, so I do it with gusto from time to time.
Thankfully, plants are forgiving. They just sit there in the ground waiting. They’ve got all the time in the world to wait and they make productive use of their time too… by growing bigger. Even in the winter some plants will contine to grow if their roots are down far enough. The boxwood that I had every intention of moving over across the yard, is still patiently waiting for me to come get it. I haven’t forgotten about it, I just put off fetching it till the spring. I was actually going to pot it up and bring it inside so it would continue growing, but it’s too late now… BUT, I still have my clippers.
So I think I’ll do a bit of holiday clipping and snipping of that boxwood to garnish some things around here. Pam and Art down at Goold’s Flower Shop are bound to have some mistletoe/holly, so It’s time to dig out the ribbons, the floral wire and knarly tree branches to make something festive and annoying. I say annoying because you always end up moving those festive things around, out of the way, from the table to somewhere else and then back to the table again. Tis the season! The boxwood in question looks like it could stand some clipping, but it sure is growing slowly. This spring it’s going to get it’s new home and lots of great fertilizer to give the thing a boost cause It’s been two years since I bought the thing and it’s nary an inch taller than it was then. Boxwoods will do all right in locations that receive full sun, but they really do best in semi-shade. Also they like soils ranging in pH of 5.5 to 7.5, which is in the neutral range – so a regular fertilizer for trees and shrubs will do nicely.
Well, gotta get going with those snippers and dig out the rest of the stuff for holiday decorating. Have a great holiday and see you all in January 09.
~Callie
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