More great shots from professional garden planner Dan B:
Bonus fauna!
Our new kitty Miss Milly. She was dumped in the greenbelt across from Mike’s house. She had some painful blisters on her back. We got her treated and she’s much happier.
She wants to play with our boy cats. She runs up to them and they panic.
She’ll probably be ruling the roost soon.
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I need to call my favorite heirloom tomato plant source with a (very!) short list of must-haves, but I’m superstitiously afraid of triggering another ‘April Surprise’ snowstorm. Snow coverage here north of Boston has verged on the nonexistent; I wouldn’t complain, except that the draggled remnants of last year’s garden warm me we’ll pay when the bugs come out and the cold-loving perennials don’t…
What’s going on in your garden (planning / prep / notes), this week?
eclare
Miss Milly is gorgeous! Is she kind of a modified tuxedo cat, but wearing shorts instead of pants?
What is the Blushing Bridesmaid flower? That is striking.
JPL
Beautiful photos and thanks for sharing them. I have to admit, that I’m envious.
BTW I had an anti Biden flyer on my front door. I opened the door to let take the dog out and this thing came flying down. assholes
eclare
@JPL:
That is annoying as hell first thing in the morning.
NotMax
JPL
Consider it physical evidence they’re running scared.
JPL
@NotMax: They almost had physical evidence of an injured dog, because when this thing flew at me, I went to slam the door.
The latest scam pac is Duty to America made up of ordinary citizens who can fund a campaign. It’s a little early though
satby
@eclare: pretty sure it’s a hellebore, Dan has many beautiful ones. AKA Lenten Rose. I want to invest in some now because his are just so gorgeous!
This area is cycling pretty regularly between very unseasonable warm weather (heading into the 70°s again early this week) and cold with overnight freezes and highs mostly in the 40°s. More yard cleanup is on tap. My bareroot roses may be delivered by the end of the month, which is predicted to go out cold after weeks above freezing. I wish I could expect them a little later. My struggling lilacs, which never fully recovered after the bad late freeze we had 3 years ago are budding out, so they’re in danger again. Gardening can really test your faith in the future sometimes.
satby
@JPL: I think the semi-good news is that even MAGA dullards have figured out that money donated just goes to pay the traitor’s legal bills. Not coughing up a bond in the full amount is damaging his “billionare” image except for hardcore cultists. Bullshit polls to the contrary.
eclare
@satby:
Yep! I googled Hellebore Blushing Bridesmaid, and there it was. Thanks!
Damn. Toxic to pets. Just like my favorite flower, the lily, is toxic to cats. The last bunch I bought I threw out immediately once one of my cats started acting very interested in it.
NotMax
Watching my garden days continue to recede in the rear view mirror. If attempted to accomplish now half what did then I’d spend the next several hours soaking in a tub of warm Absorbine Jr.
;)
(As it is, wrenched a knee while gingerly rising from the floor after taking care of a periodic necessary chore in the household on Thursday and have been far from a jolly camper since then.)
Don
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Nice flowers. Envy ensues.
Jeffg166
Rained all day yesterday giving my joints a break.
Still lots of cleanup in the garden to do. I no longer care what I step on doing it.
OzarkHillbilly
Things are budding out. The clematis have fresh greenery, the Wolf’s bane are blooming, my Spanish Bluebells are showing green damned near everywhere, my Lenten Roses (which always look like hell at this time of year) are blooming, and the Columbine and primrose are pushing thru last years detritus. One of my Bleeding Hearts has appeared but the other 2 are still being shy. And one lonely daffodil bloom saying, “FRIST!”
Getting my seed starts going now, we’ll see how well they do.
Oh yeah, thanx for the pics, Dan.
KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))
Everyone else’s hellebores look so lovely. I guess I need to clip back the foliage in the fall so the blossoms show better in the spring. They are my favorite firsts of the season though, and they last all the way until the peonies get started. I think I planted 6 or 8 15 or 18 years ago, and now they are all over the garden and have hybridized themselves – many singles and doubles of various colors and white shades.
A lot of the daffodils are up, and the tete a tete variety near the house are in full bloom. I guess spring is really here.
sab
My snowdrops and crocuses are out already, and daffodils are comimg up but not blooming yet. I can’t wait to find out what tulips the squirrels stole from the neighbors and replanted in our yard. (An advantage of being the local tree rats favorite yard.)
delphinium
Lovely photos of both flora and fauna! Miss Milly looks to be settling in nicely!
delphinium
@satby: Woke up to fog this morning. Here too it has been cycling between warmer than normal and normal temps but nothing budding out yet here, although I do expect my daffodils to come up early this year.
MomSense
I’m in the due diligence phase of selling my house. Inspection is tomorrow. Getting ready to leave another garden behind. Apparently we have invasive worms in York and Cumberland counties. I haven’t found any in my garden but I’m afraid to take any plants with me. It’s probably silly because the big box stores are bringing in so many plants from places far away.
Oh well. I looked at a condo and it was really nice and I was wondering if I could live with just planters on a balcony and no garage. Alas, they don’t allow pets. So I’m still looking.
satby
@delphinium: I have a rescue group meeting in a town about 10 miles away that will pretty much blow my afternoon 😟. I want to go get a pitch fork to dig out some stuff I need to move this week with less damage than a spade would do. This warmer week will be pushing me to speed up my relocation work 😆
kalakal
Ooh! Hellebores! How lovely.
Here in sunny Fl just had a night of much needed rain. It’s starting Live Oak pollen season so everything is starting to turn chartreuse and my sinuses are complaining. It’s also Live Oak dropping leaves season so lots of work clearing leaves. The amaryllis are starting to shove up their flowerheads so there should be a good display soon
Miss Bianca
@MomSense: You know, I must have missed your announcement in real time – you’re moving?
JAM
My daffodils are in full bloom and we are having daytime temps in the 70s. I’ve mostly finished cleaning up the beds and finished digging a new one for the prairie plants that I have starting on the back porch.
I’m trying to think of new ways to keep the bermuda out of the beds, they all need re-edged because it keeps creeping in. It gets bad during the hottest part of summer when you don’t want to deal with it…I guess I just need to accept they have to be redone every year.
MomSense
@Miss Bianca:
Yup. Cashing out on the outrageous home prices in my town and moving north. I took a job working for my son in his office. Prices are going up there too so hopefully I find something quick.
BeautifulPlumage
Good Morning! Mny thanks to Dan B for the always great garden photos. I don’t comment on these posts very much but I do enjoy the photos each week. Thanks to all who send their photos in!
MazeDancer
Beautiful kitties! Also plants.
As someone who can neither bake nor grow things from seeds – both require following instructions – I always appreciate spending less on not growing.
Free shipping on seeds all March at Farmacie Isolde.
Located in the Hudson Valley, NY, they offer a wide range – veg, annuals, perennials, medicinals, dye plants. Lots of unusual stuff.
Enjoy the pretty catalogue
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MazeDancer
Beautiful kitties! Also plants.
As someone who can neither bake nor grow things from seeds – both require following instructions – I always appreciate spending less on not growing.
Free shipping on seeds all March at Farmacie Isolde.
Located in the Hudson Valley, NY, they offer a wide range – veg, annuals, perennials, medicinals, dye plants. Lots of unusual stuff.
Enjoy the pretty catalogue
.
Kelly
A bit of snow this morning in Oregon’s western Cascade foothills. Maybe an inch. Fourth morning in a row. Melts away by noon. Daffodils, crocus, violets and hellebore are bloomining. Here’s Jerry Jeff Walker singing Bill Staines’ “Flowers in the Snow”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndjNRUa6QKk&ab_channel=JerryJeffWalker-Topic
dnfree
@satby: We had Lenten Roses at our last home, on a wooded garden path. They were part of our deer-resistant landscaping, and we loved them. We’ve tried planting them where we now live, but so far they either don’t like our clayey soil or we get too much sun.
Dan B
@eclare: Blushing Bridesmaid is a Hellebore / Lenten Rose.