As I enjoy the beauty of my window box, I wondered if you girls have taken time to plant something for yourself.

I love to deadhead the geraniums, I mist the foliage and feed them with miracle grow.
The bright red flowers and green leaves bring me such joy and the ivy has done so well this summer.
There are times that you need to step back and enjoy nature, even if it's on your fire escape!

[This message was edited by daddy on 02-26-02 at 01:28 PM.]

dresscode i had a feeling you have a green thumb. i have a small outdoor space where i can have my coffee in the morning and a drink in the evening.
i did plant begonias in clay pots. i brought two orchids outside for the season, they love it.
i also have one small-ish evergreen that lives outside all seasons.
you made me think about my plants today. i may have to get something else now.

In one window in the back I have had a large wooden windowbox full of creeping thyme for about 10 years. Now it is creeping over and down so much it reaches the top of my downstairs neighbor's windows. In summer it is a rich bright green, and in winter it turns to a dull brownish green, but it never really dies. I also have tons of different mints outside the other window, including catnip, some tansy and scallions, a fuschia-colored geranium which has lived and flowered for five years, defying all odds, and a small yellow rose bush. It is all stuff that just keeps coming back. Mourning doves live nearby, a family of crows in a nearby billboard, and an owl in a huge fir tree that I can see from my window. Sometimes, I see falcons, and at dusk, bats. All this in the City...

Dressy,
Window boxes were invented by Hattie Hathaway. She is the Martha Stewart of the Fire Escape Set! Don't get her going. She has more than just a "green thumb" if you know what I mean. She was married to a forest ranger! How green (brown) is that?

it sounds more like grey gargens!
EDIE, EDIE.........

And I have a funny feeling I am about to be re-wed.

Now that I know what he looks like...
Can I be a fly on the Honeymoon wall?

I will email you the jpegs, daddy.

i need to fill in the ground cover in my lovely terra cotta window box. the tiny white flowers i put in didn't do very well. i think i'll walk over to the garden center and see what they have.

just a quick reminder to water those outdoor plants in this heat wave. we don't want to see brown leaves and dead buds.
and keep up on the dead-heading!

i just saw on the news not to fertalize your outdoor plants in this heat. try to keep the soil covered with mulch or wood chips and remember to water.

i spoke to rose last night about an idea that popped into my head.
i was thinking about offering a bus tour featuring window boxes of manhattan.
i hoped to do a 55 seat bus two evenings a week during season and one bus per week off season.
i hope there will be interest in seeing empty window boxes off season.
surely it will be a most enjoyable experience and you will want to repeat it week after week.
let me know if you are interested.

[This message was edited by dresscode on 08-16-01 at 05:03 PM.]

If you provide binoculars and have them stand on Hudson Street just north of Dominick, they can see mine.
I would like to take the tour though. Will cocktails be served?

You did say that Geraniums refuse to die, no matter what, am I correct? Are they perennials? (where's my dictionary???)

well barbara,
geraniums are annuals when used as outdoor plants.
i know you can overwinter the plants too. do not let them dry out completly, hang them upsidedown without the soil, soak them in water if they start to dry out. cut them back and replant in the spring but be warned that disease and insect pests can carry-over from year to year. so it may be best to purchase new plants each spring.

now for hattie,
i think crudites and cocktails are needed at any bus tour of window boxes in manhattan.
should i contact ticket master to handle the sales?

I am sure we can sell them on eBay

will we have to deal with airline tickets? you know put together a nice package. perhaps toss in a show at daddy too.

DUH!
I forgot to water my window box.

lest this create ravenous jealousy, remember: this luscious scene is in, uh, New Jersey. Enter our wild back garden, endlessly fertilized by our dog Princess Lia. We have some purple climbing roses that bloom in spring, morning glories that my housemate Stacy (the very one who read tarot at Mother) "talked" into climbing around the fence this year, some hearty azaleas and little crokuses (crokii?) peeking up amidst rampant milk thistle. Im trying to grow Thai basil and a large cactus collection that looks a little peek-ed in all this wet weather. I also have a "prayer" plant that never prays - but stays open all the time (what does this mean?) Recently received a Swan Orchid from one of my clients. The orchid part died, but the juicy leaves are still quite healthy.
One of my neighbors recently complained to Stacy about all the "wild" plants and "weeds" growing in front of our house. Poor thing doesnt know an English garden when she sees one!

oh jade,
how lucky person would be to wake up with you and prepare cafe con leche and a fruit cup.
it all sounds so beautiful, i wish i were the one you chose to see first thing in the morning.
after the tooth brush of course!