Yesterday I actually planted plants. Outdoors! I consider this just short of a miracle, because the snow isn't fully melted yet. Here's how I did it. Know Where to Plant First, I made sure I knew where the snow had melted first. Yesterday, the snow was melted over much of the front lawn, but the [...]
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Indoor Successes and Outdoor Slowpokes: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day March 2013
March 15, 2013 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingThe flowers that made an appearance earlier this week during our brief thaw are now covered with snow again. Good thing I took pictures when I had the chance. The only snowdrops up were Galanthus 'S. Arnott' which is the earliest one I have. Here are some planted under a Japanese maple at the front [...]
Snowdrops and Winter Aconites and More: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day March 2012
March 15, 2012 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingThere is nothing blooming at my new (to me) garden. That lack will have to be rectified. But my daughter Cadence was going right by the old place yesterday, and I asked her to take pictures. So I can tell you that the winter aconites (Eranthis spp.) are now blooming. I was there less than [...]
Where to plant bulbs? Following my own advice
March 2, 2012 – Posted in: Design, Mud Season, The Earliest FlowersA couple of years ago, I told you to choose your fall-planted bulb locations now, when the snow is just beginning to melt. Of course, it helps to have snow. We finally got some, and I thought you'd like to know I'm following my own advice. I went around the yard, camera in hand, taking [...]
Mudseason Miscellany
March 23, 2011 – Posted in: Mud SeasonThe eighteen inches of snow that had fallen on the night of March 6th had finally melted this past weekend. (For a few dramatic pictures of that storm, visit Cold Climate Gardening's Facebook Page.) And now it's snowing again, to the tune of five or more inches. This is demoralizing. But cold climate gardeners are [...]
First blooms of the year: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day March 2011
March 16, 2011 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingAbove is the view from my bathroom window, only reversed, as I took this picture outside and the window is out of sight at the back of the image. Even though it is the north side of the house, water from below thaws the soil and gives these plants an early start. It took me [...]
Snowdrops, Winter Aconites, Crocus: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day March 2010
March 15, 2010 – Posted in: Snowdrops, What's up/bloomingAnother March, another mud season in full swing. The snowdrops that had barely opened five days ago are now in full flower: The snowdrops that were buried under snow on March 7th are now in full bud, as you can see on the left. This is the path in the Secret Garden that I brag [...]
Choose locations to plant fall bulbs now
March 10, 2010 – Posted in: Garden chores, Plant info, Snowdrops, What's up/bloomingIn January, the snowdrops in the Secret Garden looked like this: This Sunday just passed--March 7th--those same snowdrops looked like this: Such are the vagaries of an upstate New York winter. Since then, the temperatures have been mild and the sunshine brilliant, and the snow is receding. This, my fellow cold climate gardeners, is the [...]
Mud Season Color: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day March 2009
March 15, 2009 – Posted in: Mud Season, What's up/bloomingAs soon as the snow melts, before anything even blooms, there is color.If you are aware that some plants can grow underneath the snow, this is not a complete surprise, though I always marvel when it is an attractive garden plant that pulls this trick, and not just the tap-rooted and creeping weeds.The first flowers [...]
Does soil pH matter to Eranthis?
April 1, 2008 – Posted in: Plant infoWhen I was in high school, my mother handed me a mail order bulb catalog and told me I could pick something out to plant. (I guess I had done all right by the daffodils and she wanted to encourage me further.) I was ignorant, but I knew I wanted the earliest blooming bulb I [...]
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