there are no blooms here at minus 2*
There will be blooms in a few months.
New 2010 Garden Photos
I like your style JoAnn. If there are not any blooms yet, imagine where they will be. Love it!
I think I need some hardy geraniums
If I was younger and had a better memory I wouldnt need photoshop.
By taking pics all season I can referr to them when planning what to buy and where it goes.
I also have files of "Planrs on Order" This folder is alphabetized according to nursery.I also include a picture of what is ordered and where it will go as a back up.
OCD here.
I do the same thing. Keep a master list of orders and printouts of each order together. Put down where they are supposed to get stuck in (this seldom goes unchanged) and can check off each order as they arrive to be sure what I ordered is what I end up with in the spring. Too much time in the winter to get carried away, this year is really bad since I had decided to make a bed larger so needed more plants and so on and on it goes. Fun isn't it. :)
you guys are better than me... I do keep a list of what and where I bought things.. but usually don't have a plan where it's going until it gets here
You guys are better than me, too, for the most part. I do often remember where things are planted, though, and what I bought and where. But I have a master list of all my DLs that I have, plus a list of the ones I want (which I think is longer, LOL!). I have tried keeping a journal, but find I just have very little time to keep it up.
Allison, like you, I don't always know where things are going till I get them home. Sometimes I know right where they're going, though. And sometimes I procrastinate too long in getting things planted, and then I end up losing things, cause I haven't kept up with the watering. Oh, well, that's how it goes sometimes.
Karen
Plants other than irises are easier to find places to plant. Iris plants get the choice of sunny spots. Was not happy with the coleus even though it had a shady place, so I am 'off' those.
oooohhhh stab me right in the heart.... LOL
i inspected my witch hazels closer today and one is starting to open.
Nice, Bill!
I had coleus in sun and shade last year, and in both areas they did spectacular.
Karen
oh well, I can look at coleus pictures. Our first tree to open is the cornelian cherry (dogwood relative). No sign of anything.
Which hazel, Bill?
Oh, ugh!
wisley supreme
I think only 1 of the 2 Wesley Supreme will have blossoms this year.
Jelena is close to opening but with temps near zero it will be a few more weeks.
Thanks, Bill.
After being unsuccessful at breaking into the iced up garden shed, I went looking for the luvly snowdrops. They are under snow sigh. I'm thinkin the trusty blowdryer might give them a little jump start? I know, I know bad idea but I'm thinking fabby idea for the iced up shed (which is really ticking me off BTW ARGH!)
How is it that I am in NC and do not have any indications of Spring, and you all do?
Do we??
It would appear so?
This is about all I have right now.
Oh I would so trade you a...a...um... er... a blue spruce sprinkled with fresh snow? a mugo pine sparkling with white stuff? homemade suet smothered in chickadees? for the luvly holly susand ^_^ DRAT I haven't got any good traders at the moment. ps I could never really trade the chickadees but droooooooool about the holly.
dahlia,
can we send plants to you since you are in another country?
In my new adventure of getting a degree in horticulture I discovered last semester my burried passion for Ilex sp. 'Holly'. I do not have any huge ones but can send you some young nice ones, but they would be one gallon size, in pots. I am going to specialize in Holly in my new business, one of my classes that I am in right now is Propogation and I am really excited to learn how to propogate holly.
plant police
:(
I don't know. I lived in Scotland for ayear and I could not bring seeds or plants back with me or ship them because of disease issues, that is why I was asking.
Yes sigh as onewish said plantpolice so noper dear Susand. No worries cuz Moo (my mom) has luvly hollies in her PNW garden which I tend and luv. I suffice with winterberries and bearberries and I have a kickbutt moutain ash. Thanks for thinkin bout it susand though ^_^
so not fair, how do they expect us to foster international relations when we cannot share plants?
HA! Exactamondo susanD. AND unfortunately chocolate only goes so far sigh. I saw on tvland last night that they were advising US citizens that if they go to the Olympics they need 'travel papers' to come back home. This happened at Christmas. I work with alot of US citizens and many were not allowed back into the US to go home for Christmas cuz they didn't have 'travel papers'. "The world she is a changing" but still really sad for those it happened to. Fortunately we crazy Canucks are known for our fabby Christmas dinners ^_^ Not the same as being home I know but when I got back from travelling and learned how we rallied I cried. My fav was the group that took a big blow up pic of a son and rush couriered it home to be sitting in his chair for his mom and dad. Gotta luv peoples. We are more user friendly than regulators.
We have some awvul pest plants because of inter state transporting.
Kudsu vine comes to mind,Poison Castorbean and many more.
http://www.jjanthony.com/kudzu/
http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/castorbean.html
Enough to cause daymares, but wood keep groundhogs out of the way. chuckle, chuckle.
Like this furry guy? This is the very local rodent that lives in my backyard. There has been no sign of him yet this year so what does that mean?
He's freezing his butt off??
Hopefully, then he won't be munching on your plants this summer.
I would not miss him that's for sure. Since he moved in last year I have to put wire cages around certain plants. This does not make me happy. He mostly stays out of most beds but a couple he thinks are quite tasty. Also I do hope it is a he, more of them would not be a good thing. Mr Hawk and Mr Fox will no doubt invite him for lunch sooner or later.
i understand they have trouble swimming
Ah you wouldn't be suggesting I should accelerate his demise are you? I can put up with the little darling for a while, anyway if he gets gone another one will move in. A new one shows up every couple years after one departs.
a friend has one every year and does a catch and release several towns away - another uses a pellet gun, he has a large veggy garden to protect - so far i've been lucky and none have found me
Its really early for hybernators to be out.
Phil doesnt come out of his borrow.He's a pet they drag out from a Groundhog Day set.Capitalism reigns.
Man I seem to be crusty this morning.
I'll disguise myself as a nice person next thread.
^_^
we have a friend who uses a 22 and got 7 of them in his gardens last year alone. I have often wondered why he seems to get so many? I have only seen one in 7 years here on my property. But I put up an electric fence so maybe that deters them.