Got the wintertime dead grass/garden blahs?

The mailman has been teasing us with gardening and seed catalogs! then, we look outside to see it either soggy or frozen. No fair! How about some sunny, gorgeous garden pictures to brighten the days? anyone have pics they'd like to share?

here ya go babeegirl

oh Lynnie, that's beautiful! I wish I were a bee:) it's snowing outside again here but I can smell the fragrant flowers:)

Here you go. Think Spring!

Is that whats called getting down and dirty? Showing pics like that. LOL
it snowed here last night.
Sure wish my tulips were blooming.
Vickie

here's down & dirty *grin*

Here is a little sunshine for ya Babeegirl.

so pretty! Moon, don't tell me you took that yesterday.

Oh no, Yesterday was chilly...but we have not had anything like the weather has been where you are. Hope you had a good birthday and a very happy Christmas....bet that grandbaby was a joy to behold on Christmas morning.

she's barely 10 months old and walking! it's the cutest thing, she's so tiny still from being a preemie, but she's walking. She still does the baby babble but I can tell when she's informing or golden that he's been bad when he takes off with one of her toys. You can definitely understand "bad"!

Well there ya go....you need to post a pic of her so we can all share a little of your sunshine, Grandma....grin

oh babeegirl how sweet! reminds me of my older daughter, she walked at 10 months and she was tiiiiny....only 5 lbs 12 oz at birth...not a premie, just tiny. And we had a golden....

I will when my daughter gets back from Dallas:) my sd card was in her laptop with a huge bunch of pictures on it and I lost all that I had on my laptop a week or so ago. It decided to crash and burn. I've got a lot of work ahead of me to rebuild all the quilt patterns I had saved but I'm hoping to have my site up and running by this spring. I started a blog for quilting and gardening but haven't had much time to work on it with the holidays. My garden this coming season is going to have to be self-sustaining so I'm trying to pick out very low maintenance plants. I vow NOT to pull up all my coneflowers again thinking they are weeds! the rain last year just ruined my tomatoes and herb garden. I want to try those again so I have a peaceful outside diversion that gets me away from the computer and sewing machine. Oh yes, I have learned the virtues of having an external hard drive to save all the valuable stuff like files and pictures, just like I learned not to pull weeds in May and June until I'm absolutely sure it's really a weed.

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Good on you...some lessons make us angry....then we can laugh at ourselves. Sorry about the computer...what a drag. A blog sounds like fun, and a lot of work. My great Aunt India took care of me when I was tiny...she would take me with her to the weekly quilting Bee at the church. I grew up under a quilting frame....grin

I was just wishing the very same thing! LOL I want SPRING!!!

kwanjin how pretty!

well if any of you see my pics, there's always weeds in them!

Oh, there're weeds there alright. Grass is growing all through the roses and into the bed next to them. The smell from the roses is heavenly coming through the windows.

High of 18F today (feels like 6F). Temps expected to be that low for at least another week.

Reach in and pick it. I've got plenty to share.

Got my High Mowing Seeds catalog yesterday and enjoyed it curled up in a blanket. By the time I get Baker Creek and some of the others, I'll be completely overwhelmed with the choices. I'll take one of everything, please!

Oooo, yummy! Fresh, warm tomatoes...mmm...and that sunflower just makes you happy!

Moon: How sitting under the quilting frame brought back memories. I used to do the same thing when my grandmother had her friends in to quilt. Sometimes they forgot I was under there and I heard lots of juicy gossip! Maybe the "church ladies" didn't do too much of that!

Duh! Forgot the photo! Will send after I retrieve it --

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we have several ladies from FL in the DG Sewing and Quilting forum that are saying they want the cold to go away! yes, even today, if we get together, there's always gossip around a quilt frame. I let the dog outside this morning and it was finally nice enough to stand there and dream a bit about what I want to plant where up against the house. It gets full western sun during the summer and if I can think of a way to keep our golden out of them, I may just try my tomatoes and peppers in that spot. How far away from the house would you suggest to plant them? 2 maybe 3 feet?

Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed!

I like how you've put tradescantia under you azaleas. (rhodies?) Very pretty!

I would put the tomatoes about 3' from the house. Give them some air circulation. Some fencing would work to keep your dog out. My neighbor has done that and it keeps his golden retriever out. 4 by 4s and chicken wire.

Hi JeanK. Those church ladies didn't gossip....they commented on the goings on in the community.....grin. Heard a lot of "poor dears" "bless her hearts" and "such a shames" LOL

When a group of women get together, conversation is always the norm....grin Do you have an overhang (eave)? if so, you will want to plant a couple feet beyond the edge so rain doesn't beat your plants down. If no overhang, then about 3 feet out to allow for good air flow and access. How big an area are ya thinking?

Actually I can't take credit for the tradescantia. Probably Mother Nature by way of a bird. I picked this azalea because of the different colors -- DH asked me if I wanted that particular one and I said YES! It was different.

Well, it goes nicely!

Moon, there's really nothing creating a boundary so I'm thinking maybe 7 feet out. This would include the sewer line cap thingy that sticks up out of the ground about 5 inches so Mac would finally leave it alone. We have it covered now because he's just sure that it must be dug up. That, along with the air conditioner way down at the end of the bed are the only obstacles, or permanent fixtures that must be included inside the planting area. I have a good 20 feet from the edge of the patio to the AC unit that the tomatoes would be happy in. Our backyard is immensely deep so how far out the bed goes is up to how much grass I want to remove:)

Sounds like a good plan for the tomatoes. As long as they get 6-8 hours of direct sunlight in that position, it should be fine. Morning sun helps dry any nightime moisture that might have accumulated, but it isn't required.

I have the winter blahs now more than a week ago. sigh.

mine is getting better gradually maybe because there's been more sunshine lately. I tend to get SAD (seasonal affective disorder) during the winter and the best thing I can do is try to get some sun, take care of myself and remind myself to patiently wait for the upswing that comes with warmer weather.

I was thinking starting the bed about 3 feet out from the house, but starting 7 feet out works too. If ya can, sometime when you are outside, take a pic of the area. You can always plants tomatoes and peppers across the back and put in a cut flower bed in the front....best of both worlds....grin

I bought a couple of the full spectrum light bulbs and use them in the lamp by my reading chair and the lamp on my desk. I find they actually do help some and are much less expensive than the "sun" lamps you see advertised.

Lord knows I have more than enough marigold seeds to make a border around the whole bed! Mac doesn't like the scent of them so maybe I can get away with not putting up a fence. I have a feeling he'd take that as more of a challenge than anything and we'd end up with him feeling bad because I got mad at him, the fence knocked down, and the tomato plants strung all over the yard. He's actually gotten better at the digging, well, not better as in digging better holes ( I take that back, yes he has) he's gotten better about not digging so many. He has 2 that I leave alone, as well, as I don't mess with the areas along the fences where he runs up and down with the neighbor dog. The ones I want im to leave alone, I toss a few moth balls in and gradually cover them up and he seems to leave those alone.

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That would be quite lovely and do its job. A marigold surrounded bed would also be freer of pests, and much less expensive than a fence....grin

We're doing a countdown to spring one photo a day on the NE forum.

Hi Jen, seems like everyone is champing at the bit for spring to return. Lovely tulips....I really like the color. Reminds me of this daylily.

Moon: Love the daylily. Can't wait to get out in the yard to clear a space that we have decided would make a nice daylily bed. Do you have the name of yours? I have some of the named varieties and then some NOIDs. I don't go as much for the name, but just what looks good to me. Finally got DH into daylilies after I convinced him that all of them weren't orange!

lovely JeanK, what is its' name?

Hi Jean. That one, according to my MIL, who passed it on to me, is called Cajun Gambler. I have had it for years and it is relatively carefree. I have a number of daylilies my MIL decided to get rid of...all of them fancy little things but unfortunately she had them all dug up and stuck in plastic bags.....no ID for any of them. Of my named ones, I have Scaramouche, Joan Senior, Prairie Blue-eyes, Amythestine, many happy returns, Stella d'oro, Dragonlore, Mack the Knife, Autumn red, and a few that my DH's grandmother hybridized when he was a child. They are the bronze, orange, red old-fashioned single blooms. I really like daylilies and repeat bloomers are my favorites.

Crystal Blue Persuasion. Here is one I have that is similar to yours. It's called "Delightful David." This one I picked because I liked the color and didn't know the name, however, laughed when I learned it. We have a son named David and he is truly delightful!