(no subject)

In the interests of procrastination (I took the entire weekend off and still can't push myself to write, haha! Oh. Self) I am making this post.

I give up on the hibiscuses. I killed another one. The solution to killing them entailed the following conversation:

Me: The soil was damp and the leaves were turning yellow and (symptoms).
Hibiscus Guy: You're overwatering them.
Me: So should I water every other day? The soil stays wet if I water daily.
Hibiscus Guy: NO! You have to water them every day until water runs through the bottom of the pot!
Me: ...But... that's how I overwater...?
Us: Nobody knows wtf is wrong.

Not only that, but my balcony looks scraggly. After the non-hurricane I cleared it off, and now it's clean-ish enough to allow me to realize that it looks awful, like one of those yards on one of those shows on HG where a landscaper shows up at your door for a surprise make-over. I drove up from a different street and could see it while sitting at the light, and there were some spots of green and a few bare twigs. It's bad. It was time for the big guns.

"MOTHER! I want plants that will look bushy from the street, that can be kept in pots and will not grow to a height so as to block my view of the beautiful sunsets. Also I get 8 months of full sun, and 4 months of partial shade/filtered sunlight. I'm thinking annuals maybe, and giving up on long-lived plants. What does your infinite botanical wisdom say?"

"Mums."

Mums it is. Mums was also apparently the answer for everyone else, because I arrived at Home Depot to find the mum supply depleted. All they had left were a few with... buds. "Are people really so dumb they buy things already blooming?" Yes. Apparently, they are.

Also: they smell funny.