Francesca's Thoughts

Hello. Francesca Astraea here. Make a cup of tea and settle in for a chat!

growing plants

22/09/2021

Plant Mum Post #3: Giving the Houseplants a Bath and Adventures with Spiders (no spider photos, merely an anecdote or, um, three)

Happy solstice to everyone who observes it! How are you all? I am relieved that autumn feels like autumn – in Southend at least – after the weirdest summer I can remember for ages. Not sure how I got sunburnt in the last week of July and spent the first week of August wrapped in Continue reading

Plants, weather

aloe vera plants, autumn equinox, courgette plants, growing plants, house plants, Indifferent Ignorance, late summer roses, late summer snap dragon, late summer spiraea, late summer verbena, plant mum, spiders, summer into autumn
07/06/2021

Plant Mum Post #2: Introducing My Newest Lil Baby

Meet my newest child! I wasn’t going to buy any cacti (I wasn’t going to buy… anything) but this little creature was on the almost dead sale table at Hyde Hall, so really it had to be done. It’s a Christmas cactus. Well. It might be an Easter cactus. I bought it in May. The Continue reading

Plants

Christmas cactus, courgette plants, Easter cactus, Flaming Katy cutting, growing courgettes, growing peppers, growing peppers and courgettes, growing plants, house plants, Indifferent Ignorance, plant mum