Clear as a bell and just around 70. The sun is starting to hit the begonias on the table and western wall. This will last until about 10a when it passes above the portico that covers 1/3 of the terrace.
I sprayed croton down for the whitefly infestation finishuing up my organic spray. Need to find a good recipe online. The active ingredient for this one was sesame oil so i'm sure I can whip something like that up cheaper than store bought.
This building has a 'clock tower' the pigeons love sit on the roof in the morning and the cooing first thing is sweet. No train yet.
Phoe's Cloe is sitting higher in the bowl than it probably should. Bowl is fairly shallow, and i didn't want to knock off any soil from the bottom whcn i took it out of the pot to plant.
The small leafed shrub like begonia seems very happy in it's terracota bowl. The soil in the bowl is quite compacted. When I first put the little twig (which I had broken off the mother plant in the nursery) in the pot, I put stones around it to hold it in place. The plant has grown in niceldy. . There soil is quite compacted, it getting fuller and fuller. It's been getting nice Miracle Grow baths, which will make anything happy.
PM:
Joined the American Begonia Society again today. It's only $25 and it's a great source of information. Spent a few minutes on the Glasshouse Works website. What a great collection of begonias and the descriptions are good introductions to the various plants. http://www.glasshouseworks.com/trop-b.html
also http://www.bradsbegoniaworld.com/. So much to learn.
Glasshouse also plenty of other plants I should look at as well. Especially vines. It would be great to find a vigorous clinging climber. Something with a larger leaf than creeping fig. That would really make this terrace a garden.
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