Thanks for the pings.
Great to get the tips on snails on here. I have lots of them this year. Also, I help Mom with her flower beds and they are full of them. We bought the commercial stuff for them but it is toxic to animals, and she has a small dog.
It’s been a busy spring for me, but this week I did get out and spent some time in my garden, and flower beds.
I have the most beautiful, huge Clematis blooming right now. I don’t remember it ever blooming this early, but I have three, one blooming, the other two full of buds.
Peonies are up now, and I have lots of bleeding hearts in bloom.
I did some landscaping last fall and accidentally dug up some of the bleeding hearts (my favorite flower). I took them and planted them in my Mom’s elderly neighbor’s yard, and they came up recently. She’d forgotten I planted them, and all the little neighbor ladies have been hoving over them, admiring them. She is the envy of the neighborhood now!!!! When they asked her what they were, she said “I don’t know, they just came up.” Then I reminded her, and now I am her hero!!!
We weren’t sure they’d come up after moving them in the fall, as I’ve always separated and moved them in the spring.
The apt. complex my Mom lives in is occupied by elderly women, and their lives evolve around who can have the prettiest flowers. I moved Mom there last year to be closer to me, since I watch after her and she wants to live independently. So, I have to do the heavy work in her garden.
The other ladies watched her closely after she moved in, sizing her up. We are now in the running for the most beautiful flowers there. Last year I bought her some beautiful oriental begonias, and they were the talk of the neighborhood. The tulips I planted for her last fall are also beautiful.
I LOVE spring.
Spring and Fall are my favorite seasons. I love all the flowers and colors in them both...and Easter Candy. And Halloween Candy; funny how those things tie in together, LOL!
This past weekend was our big kick-off at the garden center. We had a $25K day on Sat. and a $15K day, today. Man, was I selling the stuff! Saturday night I came home, had supper with Husband, nodded off in my chair...I was in bed by 7:30pm and didn’t MOVE until the alarm went off at 6am. Those first full days outdoors really zap me, but I’ll re-gain my stamina...I’m not as tired today, even though I walked/ran all over our 2 acre nursery a number of times throughout the day.
Come Monday, I’ll be ordering like a Madwoman to fill up the rest of the yard. I can’t wait! These first few weeks are the most fun. Everything’s blooming and fresh and flies out of here because people are just crazed after our long winters.
I am planting up my outside planters with a mix of red pansies, leaf lettuce and white alyssum. Husband got a wild hair today and is re-bricking our back walk that desperately needed it. The hens won’t leave him alone so I’m hearing, “Getthehellouttahere!” every few minutes, LOL!
All of my tomatoes and peppers are coming along (inside, still) and will move out to the greenhouse in another week or so. I need to start “Will Rogers” Zinnia, “Sonata” Cosmos and some Tithonia within the next week. Then, I’m drawing a map for Husband and he’ll have to do most of the planting because I won’t have time.
My Clematis aren’t up yet, but my daffodils and tulips are half-up, and the peonies are just poking their new heads through the soil. Last fall at work we had leftover bulbs so I just FILLED the berms and display gardens with bulbs. They’re looking lovely; especially the blue Squill and the yellow daffs we planted together. Stunning! :)