Hmm, what’s your name? If you were thinking Kermit you wouldn’t be far wrong.
Winter seems to still be with me. The nights are consistently in the low 20s and snow remnants remain on the ground. Mostly on the north sides of hills and buildings, and hiding behind large trees and objects, the white has not […]
Entries from March 2007
Green Frogs
March 31st, 2007 by Craig Levy · 3 Comments
Categories: Habitat gardening
Daffodils are my favorite flowers
March 29th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 17 Comments
Time to put my money where my heart is
When I was in college, I lived in a third-floor walkup with two fellow students. Whenever anyone shut the front door to the building, all the tenants felt the resulting vibrations. And we subconsciously monitored the sound of footsteps on the stairs, calculating in the back of […]
Categories: Plant info · Narcissus
Keywords: daffodils · narcissus
The patient gardener is rewarded
March 27th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 7 Comments
Good things come to those who wait. At least ten years ago, I planted the first of these snowdrops lining the path to the Secret Garden. You will have to click on the photo to enlarge it in order to see them, because they are the ones way in the back, on the far side […]
Categories: Snowdrops
Keywords: mud season · snowdrop · snowdrops
Garden Blog Awards
March 23rd, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 4 Comments
Colleen of In the Garden Online is starting the Mouse and Trowel Awards, a program “to give recognition to those bloggers, website owners, and retail outlets that add vibrancy, convenience, or pure eye candy to our world.” Nominations are currently being accepted. Finalists will be announced on April 13th, and winners announced on May 13th.
Categories: Blogging Art and Practice
Keywords: blog awards · blog design · garden blog
Did my plant die over the winter?
March 20th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 5 Comments
That is the question–sorry, Hamlet. And White Flower Farm has some help with the answer: an article on Plants Slow to Break Dormancy. They have a lot of other articles in the Newsletter section of their Garden Help.
Categories: Recommended Links
Keywords: links · plants · reference
Early Pruning
March 18th, 2007 by Rundy · 7 Comments
Pruning the apple trees is a rite of spring. In past years I had a tendency to get started late and finish in a somewhat hurried splurge of activity–tinged with a bit of panic that perhaps I wouldn’t get it done in time. This year I had to take a different approach.
Since I’m no longer […]
Categories: Garden chores
Keywords: apples · apple trees · chores · fruit · pruning · trees
Blooming in March
March 15th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 6 Comments
I took this photo yesterday, a day ahead of Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. I knew that rain was predicted for Wednesday afternoon and throughout today, but late yesterday morning it was merely overcast and quite mild, and I thought, “Go looking for flowers now, or forget about it.”
So I went galomphing about in the nearly […]
Categories: Weather · What's up/blooming
Keywords: bloom dates · bloom records · cold climate · cold climate gardening · fog · northern gardening · snow · snowdrop · snowdrops · weather










