Currently, it’s not hard to find information about how to improve the aesthetics around you—every streaming service has access to dozens of shows featuring home improvement projects, ways to declutter your life, décor ideas, and more. These programs, along with the many websites and social media accounts that focus on the topic are proof that we all share a collective sentiment: Surrounding oneself with beauty is not frivolous. Rather, it’s a worthwhile endeavor that can improve our mood and outlook on life in general.
With that in mind, it’s no surprise that gardeners are striving to give their outdoor spaces, balconies, and homes an aesthetic that makes them happy—ultimately creating a respite from everything else going on in the world. This philosophy guides our forecast for what the focus will be for gardeners in 2023. Happy gardening!
1. Grow Your Own Bouquets
2. Creating Cottage Gardens
3. Designing Mediterranean-Style Gardens
4. Swapping Lawns for Meadows
5. Expanding Houseplant Collections with Rare & Unusual Varieties
6. Adding Texture with Foliage Plants
7. Going Vertical
8. Making Outdoor Spaces Cheery & Bright
9. Using Natural Materials
Anyone here gardening in the piedmont region of North Carolina, near Raleigh?
I farmed and gardened in the north (Central Pennsylvania)for many years.
The mild winters and hot summers are throwing me a curve ball. It appears that most early spring plants in the north, I can plant in January here. Things grow all winter and die off in the hot summer.
It’s been crazy..
“Nurse” Q reporting: dad home from the hospital/rehab yesterday. It felt good to sleep in a bed, not a hospital recliner & not to be driving back & forth. :-)
Just for the record and signifying maybe nothing, On January 5, while observing the birds at the feeders and on the ground, I saw two Robins.
Earlier in the week ist was 75, an all-time record high for the date.
Maybe there is a message there
Hello from SW Virginia!
Last year I PLANNED a 20 x 20 garden, started seeds, bought fence, bought pots and plants and the thing never got planted due to everything else taking priority.
SO, this year I have a 20 x 20 yard area with fence posts in, and not one bit of turned earth.
Realizing my limits, I’m wondering if I can put down weed barrier, buy plants in a few months, and cut holes in the fabric to put the plants into - without having to go till up the whole plot.
Anyone ever tried that or witnessed it? The ground here has less clay than I suspected it would - we’re about 500 yards uphill from the Roanoke River, maybe that means something.
Anyway, what do you think, anyone? No Till Gardening worth the effort?
Oooohhhh...Roses...I especially like old roses...will be planting several in our new Courtyard Garden...especially climbers. We had 17 more trees cut down recently, but I had the guys leave the stumps 6 ft tall...to use for climbing roses, wisteria, clematis, etc. But, creating a garden in a forest is challenging. Thanks so much for this thread DIW...so love it.
Here's a picture of my "new" (it's old, but I just put it all together) plow rig:
Good Morning Diana! Isn’t it great to have sunshine today!
That was too many cloudy days in a row for me.
I want to seed a few early pansies. Might still be too early. Don’t want them to get leggy. Will probably wait until February first.
Will start heating the greenhouse in early April. Until then, any seed germinating will be in my Park Seed BioDome in my sunroom.
Was looking though the Jung Seed catalog this week. Tempted to order raspberries.
What does everyone think of these varieties, or please offer up your favorites:
Nova
Killarney
Latham
😊
Under $4 a packet.
Cheapest anywhere this year.
Parks is over $6!!!!!!! Johnnys seeds similar.
Seeds are through the roof. Crazy.
It’s time to order folks.
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What could go wrong?
Typical January weather here in Central Missouri this past week. We got some rain then we got some snow then we got some ice pellets then it warmed up then it got cold again yada yada. lol
The contractor that’s plowing in conduit along the roadside for fiber internet bored through the telephone main cable Thursday afternoon. Half the houses on my road have been without service since. Might get fixed today if we’re lucky.
I didn’t do anything in the garden aside from watering in the greenhouse. It was too cold and windy to fiddle with getting the plastic up on the tunnel house. Half of Saturday was eaten up by hauling Mrs. Augie’s golf cart to the golf cart doctor in Clinton, MO for an engine overhaul.
The rest of the weekend I mostly spent in the shop working on Mr. Clarence. Got the transmission, hydraulics reservoir, and rear end filled up with new oil. I expect to have him back together enough by the end of the week that I can drive him around and try to get all the air bled from the hydraulics system.