It's like Christmas, except instead of tumbling downstairs to see what "Santa" left me under the tree, I'm dashing out the door every day to see what's blooming in each garden bed. Believe me, I know where to look, and I usually spot each emerging plant when its tip first pierces the surface. Yes, it's spring! Wanna see what I got?
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What’s That?: When A Gardener Neglects Her Garden Journal
April 11, 2015 – Posted in: Mud Season, What's up/bloomingI actually like keeping records. I can get obsessive about it, and that has gotten me into trouble in the past. So last fall, when I was frantically planting out the plants I had kept in containers--some of them for two years--I left the documenting of that planting for "later," applauding myself for not getting [...]
Why Won’t My Forsythia Bloom?
May 25, 2014 – Posted in: ForsythiaThe forsythias bloomed later than usual this year, sometimes overlapping with the earliest lilacs--but they did bloom. If yours didn't bloom, here are some things to consider: The flowers for forsythia are set the year before they bloom. That means if you prune your shrub too late in the season, you will cut off the [...]
Plants That Make Me Happy: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day May 2014
May 16, 2014 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingI have to agree with Donna Donabella that "the majority of flowers blooming are those usually seen at the end of April, not the middle of May." But it's weirder than that. Because after a very cold, excruciatingly slow spring, we suddenly got very warm weather, which speeded everything up. Consequently, on a drive through [...]
Springtide: Lilactree Farm Garden Notes, No. 3, 2014
May 6, 2014 – Posted in: Lilactree Farm, What's up/blooming…a large number of people over a certain age would insist that spring no longer exists… E. A. Bowles, My Garden in Spring(1914) This week (April 26-May1) has been perfect gardeners’ weather. Cool enough to hold in flower the earliest bulbs, warm enough to encourage new growth. Snowdrops linger throughout the South Jungle and in [...]
Lilactree Farm Garden Notes, No. 1. 2012
April 18, 2012 – Posted in: Lilactree Farm“I think we may have a wider approach to garden design if we have been helped to appreciate other forms of art; to be aware of basic principles – balance, repetition, harmony and simplicity – which apply to all forms of creativity. To look for these ideas in painting and architecture, or hear them in [...]
Sudden Freeze After Days of Warmth
March 24, 2012 – Posted in: Garden chores, Hydrangeas, Weather74F Last Thursday, 16F Predicted Monday Cold climate gardeners, we knew this was going to happen, didn't we? After the incredible, pinch-me-I'm-dreaming spell of beautifully warm weather, the real March weather is coming back with a vengeance. I don't think it got quite as warm here as it did other places in my general area, [...]
Spring, Spring, Where Are You? Garden Bloggers Bloom Day April 2011
April 17, 2011 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingThis slow, cold, cloudy spring is sorely trying my patience. It's taking forever for anything to bloom. But then, looking over past GBBD posts, it's really not that far behind other springs. It's just that last year, spring came earlier than usual. Somehow that became the new normal, just like that. How soon we forget. [...]
In That Spot: Lilactree Farm Garden Notes, No. 1, 2011
March 30, 2011 – Posted in: Lilactree Farm, What's up/bloomingSurely this starting into growth is the true Spring in plant life, whether it be an awakening due to the melting of a covering of snow as with the true alpines, or the commencement of the rains in the African veldt; and so long as we can see some plant in the garden starting off [...]
The View From Here
June 4, 2008 – Posted in: Garden chores, MiscellaneousThe view from here is wonderful, as long as my back is to the garden, and my gaze goes across the road, across the far side of the valley. Turn around, and--oh! All sorts of plants in pots, needing to be planted. All sorts of weeds needing to be pulled where the plants are to [...]
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