Since I really enjoy these chatty threads & I can't find Mitch's, I'm posting this one. (Anybody know where he's hiding out?)
Spring is reallllly here (& let's hope Winter doesn't come back & freeze it):
The paperwhites have come (some of 'em have already gone),
rosemary is blooming, &
2 daffodils have big fat buds already!
My knees & hands are sore from lugging bagged leaves & cardboard to make a new lasagna area in the back yard, so I'm on the 'aspirin diet' right now!
What's going on in your garden/world?
Sit A Spell. (Where's Mitch???)
The early bloomers are out! I have paper white narcissus and rosemary too. Also have Oxalis, Fringe flower shrub, and one lonely tulip(it's been open for over a week now)! My daffs have put out foliage but no blooms yet. Oh, but Speedwell is bursting with purple flowers.
I am here - just been one of those days... getting close to testing so I will be fading out for a while until we get all these kids passing. I have Iris in bloom, yarrow going nuts, and I found a bloom on my lantana!! (trailing)
Sylvia I will write you latter - any news on starting a group out here?
I have hyacinth buds! OK, so I cheated and bought them in pots at Walmart, does it still count? I miss my spring bulbs! I was tempted to buy one of the planters they had with tulips, daffodils and muscari but I resisted the temptation and bought a fig tree.
It counts... we will let you slide just this once. (lol)
Cala, for the last wo years I bought those already-sprouting tulips from Wal-Mart, what a joy to see them flower! I had never seen tulips blooming other than in pictures. Didn't buy any this year, as I'm having to watch my pennies much more closely now. I did still buy poppies, delphiniums and sweet peas, and I actually picked up some hollyhocks for the first time.
I planted delphinium seeds, but i did something wrong, they didn't come up. I think I was supposed to chill them.
I am planting hollyhocks this year, a lady in Mission had some and they were pretty. She said put them in a little shade and they do better.
I've always liked the hollyhocks I see at the Antique Rose Emporium and The Arbor Gate. Up here they are in full sun, but they are intended as spring annuals only. I bought 4" pots. The leaves are really neat, real big.
maggie--I put hollyhocks out every fall. They are easy to start from seed. My are huge too. In summers past they have been perennial if they get alot of sun in winter/early spring and shade in summer. Now how long's it been since we've had a normal summer or winter? lol
Ain't THAT the truth!?
:-)
You mean there is a normal winter for Texas????