Wednesday Reading Meme

[osprey_archer]

What I’ve Just Finished Reading

It’s been All Hummingbird Cottage All the Time up in here, but I did manage to finish Angela Brazil’s A Popular Schoolgirl, which sadly is only sort of a boarding school book. Our heroine Ingred boards during the week, but goes home on weekends, which doesn’t lend itself to that enclosed hothouse boarding school feel. A pleasant read but not memorable.

What I’m Reading Now

Dipping into books about houseplants and gardening mostly! Contemplating whether I would like to have a little indoor tree to go in the not-exactly-bay window that wraps around the northwest corner of the house. Possibly a Meyer lemon? The book makes it sound like you can actually get lemons off an indoor Meyer lemon, which does not appear to be the case with most indoor plants…

What I Plan to Read Next

Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Gene: An Intimate History. My students rave about this book, and since they read it for a class, I believe that means that I can justify reading it on the clock once the slow summer season begins.

Comments

[troisoiseaux]

Our heroine Ingred boards during the week, but goes home on weekends, which doesn’t lend itself to that enclosed hothouse boarding school feel.

Well, that's just cheating.

[lucymonster]

Omg, you can get actual lemons off an indoor lemon plant? I've never heard of that! You should absolutely go with this plan and report back on your lemon yield.

You should also definitely read that book on the clock, lol. It's only responsible! You need to be on the same page as your students!

[asakiyume]

You can get lemons off non-Meyer lemon trees too--my mom had a lemon tree that she grew from a seed that eventually gave her lemons, and my sister gets lemons too from hers. ... Meyer lemons are delicious, though, so if you're getting a lemon tree, a Meyer lemon sounds like a great idea.

[qian]

Citrus trees are meant to be very easy to look after at home! They just need a lot of light, some feeding and not to be watered too much. I've murdered 1.75 calamansi plants (.75 because the second may or may not revive at some point), but lemons are supposed to be more robust, I think. And I got edible fruit off both calamansi plants before they were defeated by neglect/aphids ...

[ethelmay]

A friend of mine has gotten as many as six lemons off her indoor Meyer lemon tree, which from the Facebook picture is not huge. There were many more flowers than fruits. I think she takes it outside in the summer sometimes.

[regshoe]

Our heroine Ingred boards during the week, but goes home on weekends, which doesn’t lend itself to that enclosed hothouse boarding school feel.

I know, right?? That was a bit disappointing.

Hope the Hummingbird Cottage stuff is all going well! I love the sound of an indoor lemon tree that produces lemons.

[oracne]

I read an assortment of Angela Brazil at one time - I found this old post: https://oracne.dreamwidth.org/1326462.html

[superborb]

I think the only difference is you have to hand pollinate an indoor lemon tree!