Beginner Gardening: Stir crazy, but there's nothing much in the nurseries yet, 1 by chrisw99

chrisw99 wrote:
Is this the Plantaholics Anonymous support group thread? LOL
Hope you don't mind me chiming in.

Spent a showery and blustery day in my comfy chair with a huge stack of old (1990's) British gardening magazines and cups of tea when I should have been pruning roses, digging up and moving another rose, cleaning out my raised bed boxes and other virtuous maintenance activities.

I yearn to redo some of my flower beds but with the likely water restrictions coming this summer, think I should focus on tearing up our back lawn and putting in raised beds with a drip systerm. Probably will try to grow vegs and a few flowers--or better yet, flowers and a few vegs. :>)

I do have bulbs that are popping up, so that makes the walk to the mail box more exciting. Experimenting with unusual croci and other fall/winter bloomers this year to help me make it through the slow season. This is what I saw this am ---little drops of gold under some narcissus leaves---Crocus ancyrensis 'Golden Bunch'.
They are tiny but eye catching at this time of year.