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Hope sprouts eternal.
Things are blooming in my garden finally, and now the blogging ABOUT gardening can begin in earnest. It's been a long time since I've done a gardening post, of course it's been longer in between posts all together. Stinkin' facebook. It's killed my blogging motivation. You can get 5 comments about 1 quick sentence on facebook, as opposed to creating a whole post with pictures, etc. and getting three. Oh well. I gotta' show you my plants. This one above is a heather that I got as an orphan from a neighbor who didn't like it because it attracted too many bees. What? I love bees --the more the better. OK wasps I don't like, and some people can't tell the difference, but I digress.
My daffodils are up too.
Inside I've got my seeds started. There's a book I have called A Starter Garden that says it was only after raising plants from seed did the author feel she was a gardener instead of a plant "consumer". I tell you I feel a lot more invested in these guys after raising them from specks than the 3 buck pony pack from you know where. Of course the pony pack ones almost all live...
But these are poppies. All of them. (yay) I even got a few orange ones to sprout --the pink ones are easier from seed. I never see these in pony packs, only 7.oo each pots. OK, I know they won't all live through 2 transplants, but I should get at least 10 or 12 --way more than I can afford otherwise. I still need to go back and replant some more canterberry bells that froze to death last winter. I had a 2 yard square space solidly blue last summer --these flowers are spectaular (look at the picture below of just one bloom --and they make sheets of spikes of blooms), and I NEEEEEED them. I got my little patio poured in the middle of my flower garden at the end of last summer, and I bought my hammock. If I can just get my book of Leslie Norris poetry, and get my bluebells again I will have achieved heaven this summer (without the inconvenience of dying first).
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Things are blooming in my garden finally, and now the blogging ABOUT gardening can begin in earnest. It's been a long time since I've done a gardening post, of course it's been longer in between posts all together. Stinkin' facebook. It's killed my blogging motivation. You can get 5 comments about 1 quick sentence on facebook, as opposed to creating a whole post with pictures, etc. and getting three. Oh well. I gotta' show you my plants. This one above is a heather that I got as an orphan from a neighbor who didn't like it because it attracted too many bees. What? I love bees --the more the better. OK wasps I don't like, and some people can't tell the difference, but I digress.
My daffodils are up too.
Inside I've got my seeds started. There's a book I have called A Starter Garden that says it was only after raising plants from seed did the author feel she was a gardener instead of a plant "consumer". I tell you I feel a lot more invested in these guys after raising them from specks than the 3 buck pony pack from you know where. Of course the pony pack ones almost all live...
But these are poppies. All of them. (yay) I even got a few orange ones to sprout --the pink ones are easier from seed. I never see these in pony packs, only 7.oo each pots. OK, I know they won't all live through 2 transplants, but I should get at least 10 or 12 --way more than I can afford otherwise. I still need to go back and replant some more canterberry bells that froze to death last winter. I had a 2 yard square space solidly blue last summer --these flowers are spectaular (look at the picture below of just one bloom --and they make sheets of spikes of blooms), and I NEEEEEED them. I got my little patio poured in the middle of my flower garden at the end of last summer, and I bought my hammock. If I can just get my book of Leslie Norris poetry, and get my bluebells again I will have achieved heaven this summer (without the inconvenience of dying first).
7 comments:
This is exciting, indeed. Can I come read in your hammock? I'll be there in May. I guess it won't exactly be heaven yet ...
no no, you have to wait for June for that.
Can you just come and do our yard? Lee and I are not too great at it.
You're so great that you plant all of that. Your yard always looks so nice as well.
I have a feeling I will be planting absolutly nothing this year. O-well.
I am jealous. We don't have any shoots yet. I am waiting. I think that I have given up on a vegetable garden. Maybe I will just plant flowers instead. Well maybe I will plant some more grapes this year. My daffodils should be coming up soon. I am waiting and waiting.........
Wish I could see the pictures. Is anyone else having problems with pictures on blogs? Mine are coming up vacant.
yeah for spring. I check on the tomatillos this morning. Little tiny green specks are starting to come up. I'm so thrilled. We also planted Lupines that are doing very nicely. Have you grown them before? I don't know anything about growing them, but we planted them for a science project. We counted exactly how many seeds we planted and then we have to count how many of them grow (and how many of them actually make it to the flower garden!)
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