week 51

Planted tulips, 21 bulbs- a month late. (mis-read bag in refrigerator) one is shattered. Lesson in not buying from Wayside. The WFF bulbs are fat and unblemished in comparison. I left one bulb out for the squirrels- on the fence, and covered the digging places with debris. We'll see if they find them. The squirrels seem well fed but hungry. They continue to eat the rose new growth.
Also planted camassia bulbs.
Planted 2 red kale from CCSF. watered fuchsia in front.
Changed battery in downstairs irrigation and time to 1 min.
Next year do red berry wreath on front door.
Cold and hale often.

Week 51 - Dec 16

I moved the purple leaved plant inside. They say 37 degrees tonight. I watered things on the bench. I went to the CCSF nursery sale on Thursday. They have poinsettas, white mums, pink wax flowers, all kinds of wreathes. I got a maidenhair fern, 2 red russian kales, a succulent to hang, 2 society garlics.
I got the clematis another 1/3 pruned. I'm sposed to plant the tulips this week.

Week 50

I half pruned the clematis, from 4:30PM til 5. -- too dark to see what was what.
More another day.
Rain probably tomorrow.
I took the 2 new long fronds of Ming fern, cut 6 red roses, some dusty miller. It will make a Christmas arrangement with the white/pink store bought Peruvian lilies.