Spring IS really around the corner!
My daffodils are coming up out of snow! (is it just me, or do other people get this excited over things like this?)
There is Hope!
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A Rose is a Rose is a Tulip
A lovely close up shot of a beautiful rose…
But wait,
Back up a bit….
Now it’s a tulip!
When shopping for fall bulbs last year, I opted for these beauties instead of the standard tulip.
I glad I did. I love them! They are “Angelique”, a late double tulip.
May Moon
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| Fingernail Moon through the naked branches of my Sycamore tree |
Mini Daffodils
Finally, flowers! Last fall I rushed around at the last minute, digging bulbs into the flower beds like a mad woman. I’m sure the neighbors are now convinced that I’m a little strange. But my strangeness has paid off and I now have splashes of color, albeit mostly yellow, around the house.
It’s not as many as I’d like to have. I want to recreate the glossy magazine photos where the flowers form carpets of color throughout the gardens.
Someday I’ll get there. I’ll add more bulbs again this fall- I’m sure in a hurried fashion. But for now, it’s nice to see the color after a long dreary winter!
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| Tête-à-Tête, a very fragrant, miniature daffodil |
Extra Large Pigeons
I know some people go to a lot of effort to get rid of pigeons…
But what do you do for Turkey Buzzards?
This is a nightly scene in downtown Morris, Illinois.
When the turkey buzzards return in spring, they roost on this radio tower every night.
Seems just a little creepy…
I’ve Got Green!
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| The daffodils I planted last fall are finally poking through the leaves! |
Impatiently Waiting
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| Little Leaf Linden ( Tilia cordata) my seed source |
Here it is March 1st and at the time of this post it is 16 degrees and snowing, again.
While it is depressing, there are little signs here and there that Spring is trying return. The sun is staying out longer and is warmer now, melting the snow inch by inch everyday. There is now a little patch of grass in my back yard again. Yea!
My thoughts are also turning towards the garden center, though I keep joking that I may have to include a snow shovel while setting it up this year! Lots of new ideas rolling around my head right now for displays and such. Let’s hope I have a good crew this year!
I will be starting my own crop of organic tomato plants and other veggies very soon too for my own garden and I am also plotting out a new shrub and perennial border and getting excited about beginning as soon as I can. There are even plans for a small pond but I’m not sure exactly where yet.
And I finally decided on where to put my little leaf linden tree (grown from seed from my original linden at my other house- the picture above is that tree- it was a rescue from Walmart and I brought it home in my van over 10 years ago. It is now over 15′ tall).
I have a love/ hate relationship with the linden. They can be a messy tree, with the sooty mold caused from aphids, and the plagues of other insects, including the dreaded Japanese beetles, that devour their leaves in summer~ but the attacks are rare and my love for their deep shade and drooping canopy and the sweet honey suckle smell of the tiny white flowers in May override their faults.
I cannot wait until it gets big.
Happy Spring everybody! I’m keeping my fingers crossed it will be a good year!
Longing for Spring to Begin
It’s snowing again, but rather than post another picture of the “White Stuff”, I’m going to go back to a happier time.
I was digging through my pictures and found these of ‘My’ Garden Center in April of 2012.
I call it My garden center, because I run it. It actually belongs to the company I work for.
I’ve been with the company, going on 8 years now and this coming March will be my 8th garden center. Finding these pictures is giving me the itch to get back outside again.
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| angel from the front entrance display |
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| Front entrance display~ spirea, azalea, rhododendron, geranium, viola, arborvitae & water features are always a big hit. |
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| another shot with a Korean boxwood and candytuft iberis- can you find the frog statue? |
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| a sea of early violas and pansies |
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| Early shrubs, just leafing out. They come in as dormant twigs and it’s exciting to see them leaf out. |
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| early yet for tomatoes, but they are well protected in the greenhouse |
Is it Really Spring This Time?
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| Painted Lady sipping breakfast from North Star cherry blossoms |
The sun is shining, the air is warm, the grass is green and the Garden Center was Crazy Busy yesterday…
I think, I Hope…
YES! It’s finally here! Let the gardening begin!
Spring Sedum
Another surprise, I have one little sedum… I wonder if the deer know about this one? They seemed to really like the one I had growing in a pot this winter.
Lil's Garden Tour 