Tuesday, October 5, 2016 – Potting Coleus Plants, Elder Aina Power Washing, Rendezvous Costumes

Sis. Johnson and I spent most of our morning working in the greenhouse. First we transplanted little Coleus rooted cuttings from their small one inch starter pots to a much larger 3 inch pot. There are hundreds of different varieties of Coleus plants and Richard, FM’s Horticulturalist, has stock plants in most of those bright, beautiful colors. He uses the stock plants to get cuttings for next year’s plants. We enjoyed this year’s crop all summer in the flowerbeds and in the planters around Nauvoo & Carthage. Transplanting all of those Coleus’ plants isn’t hard work but we did spend several hours at it.

Next we treated all of the newly transplanted Coleus plants with a systemic insecticide to protect them against aphids, mealy bugs, white fly, etc. If it weren’t for this treatment, the FM greenhouses would be a vast breeding haven for all kinds of plant pests.

 

We also added fertilizer to each pot to give all of the little plants a good boost on their way to being next spring’s “eye popping” bedding plants.

Our last assignment for the day was to work on the flower beds at the Sarah Granger Kimball home. They all need serious cleaning, pruning and weeding. We didn’t finish before quitting time so we will go at it again tomorrow.

This evening we performed in “Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo.” During the pre-show rehearsal Sis. Van Horn brought in several bolts of fabric, women’s costume dresses, capes and bonnets. She and Sister Lowe (our Rendezvous director) along with Sis. Johnson and Sis. Burningham where trying to coordinate color combinations of new dresses and accessories.  Sis. Johnson really needs a new performance dress. She has lost so much weight that the dress she uses now is baggy on her. It’s already been taken in once and can’t be taken in anymore.

Sis. Johnson and I have been asked to take the parts of “George & Agatha” in Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo. We are really looking forward to the challenge.  We just got a copy of the script and we have about a month to memorize, rehears and prepare before we start performing the part.