Plaaaantbabies!

I decided that my first act for the longer light-evening-after-work, I was going to do some balconying. (It's like gardening, but it's when you're missing one really vital bit of kit)

I feel so productive! I bought some plants from Lidl on the way home - a pieris and some lavender - and the lavenders must have sat there in that shop for soo long because half of them are the most pathetic little dried-up bits of green ever. :(

Anyway. First stop was to clean out the tubs on the wall around the edge of the balcony, and one had the most spectacular dandelion you ever did see growing in the corner of it. Bah! That got pulled out and I have no remorse for doing so. :P And one of the tubs was FULL of microbeasts. I want to know how the heck EARTHWORMS got into it! The (OMG GIANT) centipedes and spiders I could understand, but the earthworms? I live on the first floor! Anyway. There were two little green caterpillars in it as well which made me go ehhhh because we'd had a late frost this morning. ¬_¬

I got them all planted up, and it's still light! (Gone very overcast, though, so with luck it might rain a bit.)

And at long last, I repotted my maple. The poor thing has been languishing in this (very nice but) far too small pot for almost two years, and it always looks dead. ¬_¬ I was going to just throw it away and put something pretty like a little rhododendron in its pot, but then I noticed little leaf buds on it. So, it's off to Last Chance Cafe. I'm going to try look after it a bit better, this year.

Yay, plantbabies! :D

Edit @ 19:32
...it's dusk, and it's gone a weird kind of purple, outside. ¬_¬