Last fall I made a small daylily only bed with a few types of daylilies (just love them!)....I can't wait to see those come up!!! I hope it is as nice as I am hoping it will be.
Hmmm....Oh yeah I planted about 100 bulbs of tulips and daffs so I can't wait to see what they do as well....
Oh and yes yes yes my clematis....a lot of them are going on their 3rd or 4th year now!!! I can't wait to see how they do!!!
I AM SO EXCITED FOR SPRING!!!
What are you looking forward to this spring??
oh, daylillies!......now I have garden envy, lol
I'm:
looking forward to my seeing how the new hosta/tulip/daff bed will do.
considering adding a few more blocks to the square foot garden.
looking forward to starting the seeds (April 1st is the official greenhouse start up)there's nothing more satisfying than the little green bits appearing.....
still wondering what to do with the bed between us and the neighbours (has roses, daisies, canterbury bells, sweet woodruff.. and verbascum? pyrimidalis....and other assorted stuff, may do nothing, again this year, lol
looking forward to helping my neice put in some more square foot blocks in her yard (she wants at least 4 more, lol) I'm enjoying her enjoy her garden!
can't wait to see the all little perennial noses come poking thru the ground!
CAN'T WAIT FOR SPRING!
happy gardening!
Sounds like you have a lot of things between you and your neighbour - what else were you thinking of doing with that area??
lol, aiming for 'less is more' in that bed. Know I'm going to rip out one clump of plants that are proving annoying and too high maintenance there....... just need to figure out where to move them to first, lol.
I start a lot from seed, and when setting out these small plants in the spring, I tend to set them all in too close, (cause there's lots of them, lol) that bed is in need of some serious soil amending, but it's further down on the list than the 'main' veggie and flower garden......
It's a hodgepodge area that I use for cutting, (my most favourite flowers for the vases are there) There's the remains of the old square post fence running down the middle of the garden there, keeps the dogs/spouse/kids from shortcutting through the garden, lol..... just haven't come up with the 'right' idea yet.... I usually toss sunflowers, asters, cosmos and sweet peas out there too.
Over the years the fence posts have rotted, there's only a couple of posts left (I put in a 'twig' fence between the posts, and really liked that for the past several years, until the end post rotted off at the ground and I had to take out one panel of the 'twig' ....There's only one section of the twig fence left....
Seriously considering replacing the fence in some form, but don't know what yet. That will be a major renovation project, working around the roses, and incorporating the end of the shed in the 'design'.....lol
Eeks no kidding - that would be a HUGE project.....
echoes
Feb 03, 2008
Smelling the earth and rain, and....oh wait the manure pile next door and the mud and the puddles. After that, all the great gardening stuff again. digging, weeding, turning the compost, weeding, planting, watching things come up, weeding, smelling the flowers, weeding.
I'm looking forward to my first spring in my new home! finding out when spring starts, seeing what comes up from the 140+ plants I brought from my old gardens, germinating perennials that I planted yesterday, planning new gardens, sitting out on the first deck I've had and imagining all the gardening I'll be doing!
Oh that sounds great tanglee!!! A whole new experience for you!!
LOL at echoes! Weeding, weeding, and more weeding... Last year I think my dandelions grew dandelions. I'm looking forward to...
...seeing my 400+ tulip bulbs coming up in the new tulip bed - in the right order - with the promised colours - and without the squirrels nipping the flowers off
...all of my new rose bushes surviving - which they may not 'cause I didn't get them mulched in what with the hot wet fall changing overnight to a foot of snow
...starting work on the redesign of my back gardens
...finding the first frog in one of my water features and giving the poor exhausted thing something to climb out on - happens every year :-)
...just seeing everything turning green again
--Ginny
Finishing the backyard foundation border (and starting it), daring to go outside in shortsleeves, walking on the lawn too soon just to hear the squishy sound, seeing the first crocus, seeing the first blue jay, even my first blackfly bite! hehe
Sandy
Finishing last touches to pond, putting up gazebo, adding more topsoil to the new picture frame garden area...once that's done, open to new ideas..lol
I just got a "Community Flower Garden" plot across the street from where I live. It's fairly big at 33' x 22' with a nice slope facing south and ok sun. I'm planning "impact" with maybe a design of Sunflowers of different cv's in the shape of a Sunflower or something as there are so many highrises in the area that look down on it. The only concern is vandalism as its about as downtown in Vancouver as one could get.
Is there some way you could involve the community to give them a sense of ownership? If they feel they have a vested interest they'll keep an eye out and vandalism will be much less likely. Maybe you could solicit ideas for the design or something, if the area isn't too big too make such a thing feasible.
Those would be ideal conditions - involving the community, but, with a few million people... There are quite a few plots in the park so I'm hoping the dog park people & other gardeners watch over the plot. Big problem comes during fireworks at the beach when throngs of people from the burbs invade the West End and vandalise in an angry mob. Last year a gang of kids broke many of the car mirrors on my street and then beat-up a guy who told them to stop. I think I'm gonna try and get some of that snow fence for temporary enclosure.
I can't say I've ever grown Sunflower but they are fairly easy to grow, eh?
Very easy to grow. Sow direct as soon as the temps are around 50 - 55°F or so and they'll grow just fine. They can also be started using the paper towel method if you want to start them earlier indoors, but then you have to go through the hardening off process.
What I am looking forward to...
- A bus trip in May to a bunch of central Alberta garden centers, some of which are mom & pop operations with unusual/interesting plants, with +/- 40 other rabid gardeners.
- seeing what survived in my garden over the winter, being surprised by plants that I forgot I even planted...
-Dahlia workshop in March at the Calgary Hort. Society by my gardening buddy
-sharing & swapping plants and seedlings with other gardeners
I could go on and on...
Joanne
I'm looking forward to:
My new custom made wrought iron gate
The batches of lilies I put in last fall
My zone 5 seedlings which definitely will survive and thrive (hope, hope)
Creating a new dahlia bed
WEARING SHORTS!!!!!
Picking out and arranging plants for my new flower bed. It is going to be called 'Pink' and will have all shades of pink, white, red and purples in it.
This is a raised bed, about 4' high and I've been looking for tailing plants. Any suggestions would be most welcome.
One of the highlights of spring that I always look forward to is when the 'trillium woods' blooms in May. It's an incredible sight, a short walk from here.
oh sigh I'm green. I miss that sight so much woodyoak. I tried to grow trilliums here 3 years ago but couldn't create the right conditions.
Trilliums surely are a sign of spring and it won't be long till you and Misty will be walking through the woods again.
Enjoy the same up north...so comforting, signs that all is well in the world and soon the gardens will return in their splendor..