Weekend (dead) Herb Blogging

Kalyn’s Weekend Herb Blogging is in its 10th week and so far, sad to say, I’ve been all good intentions and no posts.

I’ll think of an herb — like fennel a month or so ago when it was still all perky and feathery in the garden — and then I just run out of time to photograph it. Or, I decide I’ve nothing interesting to say about fennel other than yum, and ooh, the bronze kind sure is perty.

Sometimes, I’m gone over a weekend, and then I pay no attention to the blog at all (much to the obvious dismay of The Cat, ahem). But, this weekend? I’m at home while Chopper works extra long hours.

Yay! At long last I can do herb blogging! So, what’s still pretty in the garden?

Well, pretty much nothing.

Besides, all my garden herbs are so ordinary. Thyme, oregano, rosemary, sage. Yawn.

Wait a sec. I’ve got that cool Cuban oregano I brought up from Portland. Now where did I leave that pot?

cuban oregano

Uhhhh…. whoops.

Heavy sigh.

My first foray into Weekend Herb Blogging has morphed into How Mrs. D Completely Sucks at Caring for House Plants.

For example:

The one leaf left on the philodendron:
almost dead philodendron

Mrs. Haversham’s Jade plant:
mrs haversham's jade plant

This citronella repelled its last mosquito months ago:
dead citronella

Also, that truly hideous, frost-bitten Cuban oregano used to look like this:

cuban oregano

And I wrote about it back in April in the post Mrs. D. Eats a House Plant. (Which is much better than Mrs. D. Kills a House Plant.)

So, long story short, with profuse apologies to Kalyn, I’m joining Weekend Herb Blogging, but only to send people to my archives, wherein they’ll read about this nifty, lesser-known succulent herb, Cuban oregano.

Next time I promise I’ll find something new and tasty, and I won’t kill it.

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Kalyn Says:
December 11th, 2005 at 12:57 pm

Very interesting. You can do herb blogging from the archives if you want. I don’t have a great track record with house plants myself, although I am pretty good with the outside ones. About once a year I have to do a major replacement effort with the inside ones. I don’t think I’ve seen this plant before. The best part of WHB for me is learning about all the new plants.

mrs D Says:
December 11th, 2005 at 1:14 pm

Thanks, Kalyn, and don’t worry, I don’t intend to make a habit of archive plundering. My hope was to cook something new with my Cuban oregano, but yuk. It’s so very ugly and near-dead.

Of course after I got this written up I saw that your WHB guidelines are much more bendy than I’d assumed. So, no dead plants needed! :-)

johanna Says:
December 11th, 2005 at 2:28 pm

Mrs. Haversham’s Jade plant

bwahahahahaha!!!

B'gina Says:
December 11th, 2005 at 4:53 pm

That philodendron is downright scary. The jade plant just needs a bath - easier said than done, I admit. And I bet the oregano would come back if you cut it and, dare I say it, turned over a new leaf. Heh.