In the Garden

Idle hands ish

I drove up to Midland. I used the TomTom app. It made annoying noises every time I approached a red light camera. Even though I'd turned all the alerts off. Later I found out that turning them back on and making the sound "none" will actually make them shut the fuck up. I mean I'm DRIVING and if I want to, I can SEE those cameras etc.

It was after I spent another evening in a malaise on the internet and half listening to or glancing at Law and Order. I searched and searched for a place I vaguely remembered buying my first sage plant online. It came in a postpak tube stickytaped over the end. I planted it in a black garbage can I bought especially. The pots with the same capacity as the garbage can were five or six times more expensive. When summer came I painted the garbage can white to make it more reflective so as not to cook the plant's roots. I regretted the white before I'd even finished the job. I found some near empty colours and made naive green and red shapes. It was after I'd already decided not to paint things anymore. I was mean, the green and orangey smears dried before I'd finished.

The plant had a nice life being moved from house to house. When it flowered it was covered in bees. When it was moved it lost limbs but soon recovered. When we moved into this house I decided to put it in the ground. It promptly died. I missed its silvery leaves and rampant bees. I wanted another.

On the internet, I found what I thought might be the site but they only sold seeds. I read various things about the sage, I started to visit the same few sites over and over. It became obvious that buying plants online is not the smartest thing to do. Maybe that other time I was lucky? But then was it really lucky if the plant ended up dead? It seemed there were possibly some laws about not posting plants between states. I felt like I was getting somewhere but then decided it was a bad idea. Then felt like I was getting somewhere but then decided it was a bad idea.

I found this site: Zephyranthes

The next day I was there. The building was unassuming and the carpark had weeds. But then, those weren't unwanted or in the wrong place or even unsightly. The carpark had some plants with unconventional placements. I went inside the store, contemplated walking straight through to the nursery, then decided not to. There was no use pretending I wanted anything else. I asked the guy about the sage. I noticed the counter was jarrah-looking and strewn with evidence of good garden work. The guy contemplated consulting another book from his sizeable collection instead of attending to the query, but hesitated and decided better of it. In a split second of a glimpse I might even have detected the look of a person who cant help but be in awe of the function of stats. Overview, Posts, Traffic Sources, Audience. Later I entertained the idea that he might even get the joke of his white sage page being visited 27 times by the same person who showed up asking for it the next day.

Salvia Apiana: White Sage in inorganic growing material

Salvia Apiana: White Sage in sandy well-drained soil