I am excited as it is now March and I can sow seeds with gusto- having said that all window sills are already full- I have a very understanding husband!
I'm excited as I've completely reworked one of my beds and dug out all the old shrubs, manured it over winter and have just planted flowering bulbs in rows going from 100 cm at the back through 80cm, 60cm to 40cm at the front. I've staked it all and am now waiting in trepidation for them to take, if they don't I will cry because I don't think I can do it again . Problem is I look at it everyday and what's that old phrase, a watched kettle never boils .....
I'm excited 'cos I've got dirt under my fingernails! I'm enlarging the Little Wilderness and listening to a Blackcap in the branches above my head - Spring has Sprung!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks, Dove: It's always a 'team effort' each December - OH does the cakey bit & I do the 'decor', well-early enough for it to be 'matured' by Christmas Day. [Despite the fact that there are normally just the two of us eating it, it rarely makes it through to the New Year!!]. *The designs are different each year, just as my creative 'juices' flow...!!
Today I am super-excited because I have collected my pre-ordered speedplugs from the garden centre. All looking good.
Lots of petunias, Surfinia, mini and double, some helichrysum, diascia, and scaevola, and more mixed Non Stop begonias because I was so taken with them last year. Now to have fun planning baskets. I am growing my own lobelia, bidens, alyssum and nepeta as fillers. Love this time of year, so exciting!
I'm the proud parent of three baby aroids! They went off like little rockets so yesterday i transplanted them in to a pot of their own,rest have gone back under their polythene bag????
I can't resist showing you this one. The first flower to open was a definite brown with slight pink tinge, two days later it is definitely PINK! The next two flowers I would also call them brown - will they also become pink? This is fun!
My Pumpkin Atlantic Giant seeds are up, the hole in the garden is just about full of manure, kitchen waste, old compost and grass cuttings since last September so will be covering it up with soil and give it a couple of weeks to warm up and the plants can go out.
Try for first prize in the local show again this year.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
my astrantia seeds, i had in the fridg and then put outside,have germinated and i am very happy! i bought these seeds from seedaholic.com.They are an irish co.and gave great instruction on how to grow all there seeds and a very good selection!
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I am excited as it is now March and I can sow seeds with gusto- having said that all window sills are already full- I have a very understanding husband!
I'm excited because we're supposed to hit 40F tomorrow! Maybe some of the three feet of snow will melt and I'll actually be able to see my garden!
I'm excited as I've completely reworked one of my beds and dug out all the old shrubs, manured it over winter and have just planted flowering bulbs in rows going from 100 cm at the back through 80cm, 60cm to 40cm at the front. I've staked it all and am now waiting in trepidation for them to take, if they don't I will cry because I don't think I can do it again
. Problem is I look at it everyday and what's that old phrase, a watched kettle never boils .....
Lovely cake David
I'm excited 'cos I've got dirt under my fingernails! I'm enlarging the Little Wilderness and listening to a Blackcap in the branches above my head - Spring has Sprung!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks, Dove: It's always a 'team effort' each December - OH does the cakey bit & I do the 'decor', well-early enough for it to be 'matured' by Christmas Day. [Despite the fact that there are normally just the two of us eating it, it rarely makes it through to the New Year!!]. *The designs are different each year, just as my creative 'juices' flow...!!
Today I am super-excited because I have collected my pre-ordered speedplugs from the garden centre. All looking good.
Lots of petunias, Surfinia, mini and double, some helichrysum, diascia, and scaevola, and more mixed Non Stop begonias because I was so taken with them last year. Now to have fun planning baskets.
I am growing my own lobelia, bidens, alyssum and nepeta as fillers. Love this time of year, so exciting!
I can't resist showing you this one. The first flower to open was a definite brown with slight pink tinge, two days later it is definitely PINK! The next two flowers I would also call them brown - will they also become pink? This is fun!
My Pumpkin Atlantic Giant seeds are up, the hole in the garden is just about full of manure, kitchen waste, old compost and grass cuttings since last September so will be covering it up with soil and give it a couple of weeks to warm up and the plants can go out.
Try for first prize in the local show again this year.
my astrantia seeds, i had in the fridg and then put outside,have germinated and i am very happy! i bought these seeds from seedaholic.com.They are an irish co.and gave great instruction on how to grow all there seeds and a very good selection!