Pot Addiction and A Look Around the Greenhouse

It's August first.  Heavy sigh.  While summer is still in full swing and autumn won't arrive until late September, the passing of July is a bit of a turning point for me.  August is the month when I plan the entire choral year for my Sunday job and the month when meetings and preparation for the school year begin.  Soon working six days a week and some evenings will resume and garden tasks, which were leisurely done between frequent breaks, will once again be hurriedly sandwiched in between work hours. Comparing three months to a weekend,  June is like Friday night,  a couple of weeks off and what seems like an endless amount of time stretching out before you; July is like Saturday, leisurely with no hurry to do a whole lot;  August is like Sunday - Still a few hours (a couple of weeks) before work starts but Monday is definitely near.  While the natural world sings of high summer, I mentally begin the metamorphosis from silly singing Grasshopper to industrious, work-minded ant.

Yesterday, I mentioned my visit to Washington Pottery, and previously shared that my friend and neighbor Sandy had given me her pots.  In addition, Alison recently passed on a couple of pots that didn't work in her garden.  Some of you wanted to see the haul and where they could possibly fit so here we go...

First, the pots from Alison were two large brown dragon-themed pots.

One is on top of a rotting stump and holds a rotating variety of plants awaiting permanent homes.

The larger of the two is the new home of the big brugmansia in the greenhouse. Much nicer than the old plastic pot.  Re potting this was a two-person operation.

Pots from Sandy:

I had the large and small purple pots already.  Sandy's middle-sized pot made this a nice trio.

There are actually more pots than can be seen in this picture but they're hiding behind plants right now.

Not currently used  to best appreciate the shape of the pot.

Tall blue hexagon is now home to Sinopanax formosanus.

From Washington Pottery:

Two gold pots flank the back gate which finally got painted.

Got a couple of these.

For some reason, two seemed to be the number of the day and two of these popped into my cart as well.

 Mostly, I got terra cotta pots as they're always useful. Three which had no price tag on them were thrown in free!

At  50 cents, I would have bought more of these if they had them!  Alas, only two. 

Another lovely pot, complete with Aeonium 'Kiwi' and a cool bead ornament appeared in the greenhouse on the day of my garden open.  A special gift from my pal Chavliness.  Love it!

Since we're in the greenhouse, let's take a look around.  I was never really fond of cacti six years ago. A few soft succulents, maybe but certainly nothing with spines, but their beauty and variety has me hooked. The fact that they like to be ignored during the winter is a bonus. 

The arid side is looking a bit crowded but will be even more so this winter.  Some of these may come inside the house.

Oh, there's another new pot from Washington Pottery up there in the rafters holding what I think is Selenicereus anthonyanus (assorted succulents.)

The view to the left that you've seen in previous greenhouse posts. 

It seems like there are still a lot of plants in here.  They're just more spread out than they will be during the winter.

The wall of green to the left is the tomato plants which will be gone by the time the fall migration happens.

Few people see this  Colocasia that's sort of stuffed back in a corner.  The idea a couple of years ago, was to start it here and relocate it outside for the summer.  Poor thing never got moved outside but seems perfectly happy growing here.

Back out to the pot ghetto.  My blogging pal Linda just posted  some photos of my garden here.  It's always interesting to see our gardens through someone else's lens. 

Happy August everyone!