When I need to take a break from bookkeeping
and no one has sent me a new T-mail or added to a watched post, I go exploring.
Prowling around just now I found this post (Greg, you got it going again so it moved up on the list) and I'm wondering how June & July post-surgery semps are doing now? Knowing how I had to watch my seedlings, spritzing them a couple of times a day to keep them moist but not soaked, I know that if life happened at the wrong time, these little plants and divisions can easily be lost. But I'm hoping some of you have stunning results to show???
Mother Michaela has started reading up on semps, Jovis and succulents in general (she likes to make sure I don't get too far ahead of her in the garden dept.). And since she's also the one we send out to represent the monastery when we need to register our thoughts/feelings/ etc. on subjects like fracking Upstate NY
and finding out about the latest green technologies
, it has suddenly all come together with her discovery of green roofs.
I think they are a great idea, but we need to start a bit slowly (we are just having our large barn re-roofed, and I think it's a bit too high up for us to have gone the green roof direction anyway. Even our handyman said we needed to leave that job to professionals). Last week she showed us pamphlets she got from a green-roof contractor in Ithaca, less than 2 hours away. She was wanting to get a quote on their doing the chapel roof. But again, we just had to replace that last year after the hurricanes did their number... These green roofs aren't cheap! (to put it mildly) And we aren't going to be able to propagate enough plants ourselves, even growing them from seed and doing this kind of surgery!
So that's a bit off subject here, but it's the kind of discussion we've been having here and now I need to get back to my books!
MR
