Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Spring Projects - Show Us Yours!, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Stormy---

Among my zillions of seeds I have collected/traded/own, I have mixed Hollyhock seeds from someone????? Would they still sprout and bloom--or are you thinking about next year? Kind of in the "biennial" mode?
Be glad to send a baggie of them to you. Again--I have NO idea what they look like.......

How about some Foxgloves--while you are at it? You can seed them soon as well and enjoy those 3' spikes in bloom next year. I am sure you saw pictures of mine....

How about some Grandpa Ott MG? I have lots of seeds of that--as well as Cardinal Climber and also Blue Picotee MG's.....not so rambling....different leaves....

How about starting a Pyracantha and work on espaliering it?

You could also start a collection of ornamental, wrought iron sconces (or something similar) and hang them (how???) randomly along the fence...Kind of look at it as a blank canvas--250' long canvas!!!! WOW! So much potential!!!!
And you did NOT have to pay a penny for having this beautiful backdrop to your beautiful bed! And--it is NOT likely your neighbor will come and check up what you are doing to the "other" side of HER fence! I bet it cost her several thousand $$ to have that installed.....and it became a "gift" to YOU! See? Positive thinking.....
I don't know what shrubs you lost---but it is now in the past---Think of the future!!!!
And all the potential you have at your disposal.....VIVA Lemoncello!!!!!....:o)

"Grandpa" is so pretty! Bright blue with that magenta throat....However--it does climb up to your rafters! I have all kinds of volunteers coming up in the bed they were last year! NEVER again! It just about killed my Multi-Blue Clematis!!!! Priorities are priorities!

I am trying--bit by bit--to clean and dust and vacuum and straighten my house up for my "mystery" guest! Finding it hard to do--as I keep wanting to take breaks and sit at my computer and chat with you all.....Procrastination rules my life--but ONLY because I know i will get everything done when it is crunch time!

As of now--I have the rest of today (not much) and half of Sunday and all day Monday left--so, I am not exactly sweating it.....Need at least a couple hours to clean off my patio and the tables....Will be throwing out all my crippled tomato seedlings. They are "frozen in time"--and have NOT progressed any in the last few weeks.....WHY bother trying to plant them? They look just like they did when I posted my pictures taken a couple of weeks ago! 2" tall--and no leaves to speak of.....

Bought a "Sweet 100" red cherry tomato at Lowes today and planted it.....Have ONE more spot for ONE more tomato--or it will be the 3rd Mortgage Lifter I will be planting there....They did OK--for some reason! AMEN! Done with it!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...Maybe I should write another Poem, tongue in cheek, about my woes with seedlings this Spring...Hmmmmmmm........Should be a humorous Poem in the least.....Sort of a SAD joke?
I will have to wait some night--when I have had too much wine--and when my brain is all "liberated" from the mundane every day stuff so I can "flow" creative!!!

Wrote a Poem to my "Mystery man" last night. He never mentioned it (such a non-emotional man!).....Just does not want to appear "sensitive"....Oh, well!
Don't know what I will do with him--or....v-v....

OK! Digressing here.....Gita...

Grandpa Ott......