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Seasonal perfection

10/10/2012

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In a small town, it’s the little yearly reminders that help you keep your seasons strait. Who needs an iPhone when I can run my calendar on things like Lyman's corn maze. From the sowing of the seeds in May to it’s opening on September 1st, it quietly marks the long summer. In the same fashion, Country Flower Farms spookily reminds me year after year when Halloween is fast approaching. I love taking in the view of the farms friendly ghost calling from deep within the field as I meander up Bailyville Road.  Each year, I vow to capture these ghost framed by fall’s multicolored backdrop in a morning mist.  I rush back and forth in the chaos that ensues during schools beginning and the Durham Fair, making a mental reminder to come back for a better look. A small window of opportunity came last week. I would have gotten the full fog effect if losing my keys hadn’t distracted me.  Nevertheless, I enjoyed a meander through the fields and even more so, a walk through CFF’s amazing greenhouse.  My morning stress lifted almost instantaneously as I poked through ferns, cacti and steamy houseplants. The tropical houseplants would remind me to bring summer’s warmth into the house for the long winter ahead.  I looked in awe at the mums beckoning as far as the eye could see.  Another season grew just beyond that with deep green poinsettias just waiting to sprout their red petals. I would snap a few photos and then purchase some plants that I had no idea how to care for. Plants see me and start to shake from their roots in fear of my black thumb. After soaking in the heavily oxygenated air provided by the plant filled room, the rest of the day had me breathing easier.  I swear that people who spend their lives surrounded by plants are healthier and happier. They even had Jack Johnson playing in the greenhouse helping the plants grow. It's places like this that  help bring an imperfect world a bit closer to perfection.

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Ahmad Zaki Aldy link
12/13/2012 04:47:45 pm

Nowadays, with our centrally heated houses, it is difficult for us to imagine the struggle house plants must have had surviving the winter in grandmother’s day. Yet although modern homes present greater opportunities for indoor cultivation, we still often make life much more difficult for our house plants that it need be. There are often very warm and ice-cold rooms in one and the same house. And at the night when the heating is turned down, or off, the temperature around the windowsill, where most of air house plants stand, drops dramatically. Casually, we simply expect them to get used to it.

The first problems arise with the transition from outdoors to indoors. House plants that have spent the summer in the garden, or on a balcony or patio, usually find themselves suddenly whisked indoors. As soon as night frost is in the air, they are rushed into the house again, giving them no chance to acclimatise slowly to their new environment. One minute they are in the fresh air and the next on the windowsill of a warm room. It is wonder they are survive this traumatic change, if at all possible, you should first bring them into a sunny but unheated room which can be ventilated daily.

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