Life on Mars

Tag: House plants

  • Guilt and lemons

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    Having spent some time giving the garden a bit of a tidy and refresh, I thought it was probably time I did the houseplants too. I’ve been feeding the biggest already, but there’s a couple of the smaller ones that I’ve been feeling guilty about for a while. It’s long passed time to get around…

  • Window Ledge Review

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    It’s time for my seasonal office plants to go now, I think. I’m genuinely bad at knowing when it’s time for plants to be done, but in this case they are blocking my office window. That was part of the plan during the summer, to try and keep the room a bit cooler – not…

  • Office plants

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    One of the things I enjoyed about my office during my PhD was that I grew a number of plants on my window ledge. It’s not so easy to do in a commercial office – aircon, poor light, commercially supplied planting, etc. But working from home, in a south-facing room no less, gives me the…

  • More office updates

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    Having made a few changes around my home office, I may have got a bit carried away. I had a sudden urge to indulge in a bit of decorating and paint some of the walls. Clarkie is such an enabler. She made me leave the house and took me to Homebase, just off the Oxford…

  • More green

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    I bought another house plant. A little variegated ficus. The poor little thing was buried in amongst the other plants at a DIY store, and had a half price sticker on it. We were a bit startled when it turned up on the receipt as “Damaged/Incomplete” – there’s nothing wrong with it! I assume it…

  • New growth

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    I’m a bit lacking in mojo at the mo. Don’t want to exercise, don’t want to do much of anything really. I rather suspect it’s the time of year. I’m trying to ignore it and get on with things anyway! Before Christmas I went for a run on a chilly, chilly morning. -3 Celsius, according…