Garden Dreaming- Perennials I Know & Love

Today the weather wasn’t exactly on my side as pretending it’s spring was concerned. This also caused my energy to take a dive. I know I am driving this point into the ground, but I shall say it again, now that I am so aware of how the weather effects me this time of the [...]

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Weather’s on my side

Fortunately weather is also terribly busy pretending it’s spring. This is sending me in a crazy frenzy of gardening fantasizing. Right now I am pulling together pictures of the perennials I plan to plop alover along with other big ticket items such as fencing, pattios, shade providing structures, and other goodies.
Greg and I really need [...]

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Garden Dreaming- Trees * Shrubs

Since I am now pretending it’s already spring, it’s high time for me to narrow down my list of plants I want to grow in our new garden. There is not a single thing in our yard except for weedy grass and on random tree in the back corner that I have no idea what [...]

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Poor ignored seedlings get to go for a ride soon!

Thanks to all the time the move has been taking up my little seedlings have been mightily ignored this season. Thank goodness I remembered to water them at least occasionally, so that despite the neglect they’ve been able to take care of themselves pretty well. So far as I can tell none of them have [...]

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Lots of green little leaves

More and more little seedlings are popping up every time I check them. This is the part where it becomes more fun, and the boooring wait is over. I can only take staring at little black dirt squares for so long.
The new plants that have sprouted are: 28- Squash, 32- Oregano, 23- Lupine, 19- [...]

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Germination Excitement

4- Moss Rose was proudly the first one to germinate. Then it was quiet for a while, but as of today 12- Giant Cactus Flowered Zinnia, 16- Mixed Sunflowers, 25- Squash, 26- Cucumber, and 30- Basil have all germinated!

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All Seeds Are Sown

Today I had to finish sowing all of the rest of the seeds as I had been stupid enough to leave all my seed packs outside when it rained all day, and so they all got wet, which means they will be germinating in their packs if I don’t act fast. It was bitterly cold [...]

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It’s that time again!

I checked the US ‘average date of last freeze‘ map, and guess what I found- The normal last freeze date for this zone is march 15, which is today. Guess what that means. I can start growing seeds again!

So today I dusted off all the ol’ supplies and started planning the flats. I will get [...]

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Spring is a coming

We returned to the arboretum again, this time the weather was much more enjoyable. We took the ’self guided winter tour’ this time and it brought us past many encouraging blossoms and colors. One of the gorgeous plants I saw a ton of different varieties of, but that I’ve never heard of was the [...]

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April 26- What’s in bloom in the Wilson yard

I love to make cuttings of the various scattered flowers that are blooming on our yard at any given time, but typically it’s such a scrawny little bunch that it always looks a little odd stuck in a vase. Now earlier I won this great tulip bouquet that was stuck in the great low square [...]

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