Gita, that sounds like a fun night!
I saw an interesting sign of spring today. It seems the squirrels dug up some of the tulip bulbs and planted them elsewhere. They're popping up in the strangest places.
DO YOU HAVE SOME SIGNS OF SPRING 2013?
I held a Clinic yesterday @ HD for kids to choose and plant some seeds.
I guided them through the process...soil in peat pots, choose seeds, put one into each
little square..push it down, I misted them in...and gave Mom or Dad a page of directions for care.
The kids also got to choose 2 pretty Easter Eggs filled with chocolates and jelly beans.
Put in a lot of hours at home filling them and planning everything out to the Nth degree.
Made signs at work--and the one on the table just the night before.
Here are the two cutest "Future gardeners" of them all! SO adorable! G,
how cute!!!
I'm waiting for the UPS guys to start wearing shorts!
Here forsythia blooming and Spring peepers peeping, Dafs out now. too. Bare trees against grey skies showing reds and greens. My bleeding hearts are up several inches and there are teeny tiny green wings of leaves on the Mock Orange and opening buds on some hydrangea. My Japanese Maples are holding thight for now but they are ready to burst forth next warm day.
In my fantasies, I loll beneathe a cherry tree for an entire day watching the blossoms bloom...
or, perhaps travel to an exotic rain forest for some mental sunshine...
http://www.exoticrainforest.com/
Gita, that is wonderful the way you are teaching those kids. Good for you. Also, I hope your trip out in the snow is worth it. The check should help ease the pain of getting wet and cold. LOL
I am about to get really cranky. There must be three inches out there already. Bird feeders are empty again and I am too miserable to even talk to anyone. My daughter keeps calling me and teasing me and if I was near her I swear I would smack her................well maybe not....but I can not be sure. This snow is really turning me into a real nasty person. For God Sake it is almost Easter. This is no onion snow either. My daffodil field is all but covered. Hmmmmm maybe that is the answer. Drink myself silly and then I would not be able to see outside. Dag gone, no beer either. Nothing is going right today.
Hi ya all!!! YEP!!! IT'S SPRING !!!The white stuff's we were talking about "" are about BLOOMING !!and they are EVERYWHERE !!!!My gosh "'what am I going to do""" Look at this:" they are over running everything !!!! I took these this morning to show a professional , they just said they had seen this , and it is all over and they have not found a solution for those who see it as a problem ..(sigh)
10 TO 16 inches and healthy as can be !!!EEEEEKK!!!!!!
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Yes indeed Gita Great work with the younngsters ,, Who can say , Only I bet some grow to be gardener's abd Botanical specialists ,
Great shots Ju.....We do not have that much. Here is a shot of the daffodil field at the farm. Some of them had little buds. I do hope they do not freeze.
Mot things seem to rot or freeze this time of year here . Loved the Horse and ball !!lol kids got a laugh of that also .
What it looked like yesterday ..... Perrigrine Falcon fledgling taking a snooze .. Spring is waiting for next week 50's 60's they say . hope so !!
The falcon is marvelous. I would love to have one around here. Are they similar to Hawks?
We have a thread on bird watching http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1302351/ . Have you shown these pictures to that group. So kool.
I have spent just WAY too much time here today, but when you're trying to write an article, it's too easy. Like being in an office and your desk is right next to the coffee room. And then I worked on pictures tonight, still struggling. This one was too cute not to share. She looks to me like she's holding that tulip leaf up like a fan, or draping herself with it like a scarf.. "Look at me, aren't I pretty?"
Oh, How pretty.
What a cutie!
Too cute!
Oh so excited my Peonies are coming up. Don't look like much yet but all three of them are putting out shoots.
yay!
Really hoping that week of deep cold sometime over the winter will make mine bloom better this year.
My Peonies are also pushing up red pips...so id my Bleeding heart....
G.
Our peonie trees seemed to have just come alive also. Snow and all. The Iris are trying to do their thing but it is taking a wee bit longer with this snow and cold. The snow melted but I still think it is cold.
I am struggling with "should I--or should I not" dig up all my old irises and clean them up
and re-plant them...Now would definitely be the time....
This would also give me the chance to dig in some fresh soil in those areas.
They have been there forever.....
My deep purple Iris are from my Uncle's garden. He died in 1991.
I rescued a couple plants from his yard before the house sold.
My two-tone blue and whites are from my neighbor's garden--I dug some up
before the Pakistani people moved in and cut everything down and dug everything up and trashed it.
Since I have all these D-Lilies coming from Jill,s order--this would also open up a
couple new spots to plant them. I also want to establish some new Platycodons.
My old ones are lost between the hard bulbs of the Irises. May grow from seed next year..Seems they are easy.
My mind is so willing--as i sit and think of all these things.....but actually getting it done will be a hard job.
My knees and my back can only do so much at any one given time....
The weather has not helped! I bet summer will start here like so many other times.
BAM! One day it will just be 80*--and that's that....I think we are losing the actual SPRING time this year....
GIta
I wrote a long comment this morning on this thread and it never showed up. Also, I had an dmail completely disappear. There must be little bad guys running amuck in my computer because something is definitely wrong. LOL
Do you want me to move us to a new location or should we just close this thread since Spring is here. I will do whatever you all want. I will not feel hurt if anyone thinks we should close it. We are going to be really busy soon but I will do whatever you want. We have had over 1300 hits I see, lots of lurkers. I will wait to hear from you.
You can move on to a new thread though if you want, just spring 2013 or what's growing now?
We always wait till 300 posts on the NE forum to start a new one
That is good to know Flow...on the other one I am on they move at 200 and I was afraid I was putting a burden on anyone with a dialup Internet by not moving sooner. If you to keep it going and just do as you suggest that is fine with me.
This is such a beautiful day but did you notice the wind is picking up here. Have a good day, and I will just wait. Thanks so much. JB
does anyone have dial up anymore?
I'm good with either. Most of the time I am checking DG from my phone.
I think it is only a problem with some of my customers in Montana, Washington, Wyoming and places that are not as lucky as we are to have cable. Many of my friends and customers live on farms or ranches or just in the mountains.We are so fortunate here in the ME. We were one of the first to have FIOS because they laid the cable down our road to accommodate the Joint Base I guess and they came in and said if we wanted to hook up we could. That was years ago and some people are just getting it now.
We are staying at a place this summer that doesn't have cable or cell phone coverage. That'll do us in!
Gita, I don't know if you should dig up your iris now but you have given me an idea. I have iris and ornamental grass mingling in front of the lilies and I have quite a few lilies coming my self and I want to clean up that grass. So now would be a good time for me to dig up the grass and iris separate and clean up that bed a bit. Thanks for the reminder.
Holly,
Is there a reason you say i should not dig up the iris?
Is there a negative something attached if i do? is it too late to mess with them?
They will soon be shooting up. Is that a problem?
There is not much roots to worry about on an Iris clump. And--getting rid of the old
root sections (The bottom of the "Y"--no longer producing) will open up a bit of space too.
I am willing to listen to anyone's advice on this....It is just that i do not see any issues...
Thanks, Gita
JB---I would change the title a bit and move it on. It took about 1 month to get to
the 226 posts here--so something suitable to April sliding into May would be OK.
Maybe something to do with "what we are planting?"--as jen said....
Or--what are you changing in your garden for this spring?
Or--What will you be growing to take to the Plant swap? etc...etc...etc....
A small change in a Thread's title can bring on a whole new aspect to what people are posting.
Just think of something YOU are doing--or soon WILL be doing and pick a nice title...
GO FOR IT!!!
G.
Jen said they usually wait until 300. So, why not wait? I really don't care what you call it. Why don't you start it when Jen says it is o.k. Thanks. JB
No Gita, I I didn't mean that you shouldn't dig up the iris. I have never dug mine up other than to swap them. I was just saying that I should dig mine up and now might be a good time to do that.
I am on dial up as well as a few others.
Here on the Mid Atlantic forum we usually do a 'continuation' thread around 200 as Sallyg has reminded us on seed starting thread just today.
The more pics in a post the longer to load
The more posts in a thread, the less likely anyone new or who hasn't posted in a while and just wants to catch up will do so...just too much to read thru.
Northeast Forum has about 12 on-going continuous threads, year after year! Currently we have Neck of the woods chat and Birds. Northeast has a number of regular daily posters, we do not. Our regular posters are more sporadic and one is never assured of hearing from someone who has just posted something, the next day or even the next week! If Ruby was still posting and not inundated with home redos we could ask her to restart the Yardening thread so we can all remember what's to be done now.
Maybe Sally will continue Indoor Plants (getting long hint hint) and What's Cooking Holly's Projects thread would be good to continue. Maybe FlowAjen would do a Whats blooming thread and someone surely could continue a Pets thread. Hopefully Va Wild Rose or Jen will keep a bird thread going for us now that weather is warming up. Who knows who will do what, or who should do what, or should be checked with before something is done or moved or changed to minimize any gerfuffle???!!!
JB I have enjoyed this thread and would like to see it continued by you under the same title (even with the same picture) for a while. Please? IMHO it is too long now. Respectfully, Judy
Jan said she would be starting Spring Swap threads in April. I'm going to bump up the Yardening thread and start a continuation for Spring.
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Holy Hannibal! All I can say, is - JB, if you change the forum to something else, PLEASE notify us all! This is one that I definitely watch! You guys teach me so much, just by kibbitzing. I love you guys!
JB---
I think people here start new Threads when it seems to be for the best to do so--around 200+ Posts.
The NE Forum may have their own ways from the MA Forum.
I think coleup already started one that will fit in the late spring category.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1304562/
Gita
Yeah, Gita, but the thread I renewed is Yardening! You know, all those garden must dos and chores...not a fun thread like this one of signs of Spring.
Besides, like JB I still haven't filled up my dance card this year and signs of spring still seem around the corner. I'd say that spring is here about 30 %. Everything seems to be waiting for two days in a row of 60's weather and then will burst.
Hey, the moss is very green after the snow melted. I say keep this thread (or a continuation) going at least until my bleeding hearts bloom! Right now they are only up an inch and a half.
Hang on gang, we are up---up and away to our new thread. All the same except the picture has changed and #2 has been added. Hope you will join us and really bring in Spring in a fun and enjoyable way. Hang on, here we go:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1304668/
If you have a problem with the link, please let me know. JB
Here is a different "Pot person"--kind of more wood than pots.
Saw this in one of my Dr.'s offices back in 2007. You can use it for any Holiday--
depending what you put into the pot he is holding.
Kind of klunky--but I thought he was cute....
Anyone want to make one? Let me see.....Gita
Gita Honey, you are here all by yourself.....we moved on to #2. Come on now....we need you.
Check the post above your last one and that is the link. Hugs. Jb
I had to read your post because you said POT man and naturally I thought it was something else. LOL