The first day I was able to get outside to work in the yard this year was Sunday, April 20th. It has been a very wintery spring so far, with little going on out in the yard or even much success with the seeds indoors.
Here are the highlights of the week:
1) Getting out to work in the yard on Sunday!
2) A trip to Winter Greenhouse in Winter, Wisconsin where I got a flowering almond (tree form), a 'Blue Muffin' Viburnum, Clematis 'Bourbon,' Geranium 'Tiny Monster," Platycodon grandiflorus (Double Balloon Flower) 'Hakone Blue,' Scabiosa 'Butterfly Blue,' Dianthus deltoides 'Zing Rose,' Artemesia 'Silver Brocade,' Polemonium reptans 'Stairway to Heaven,' and a couple of annuals, including Oxalis 'Zinfandel' and Euphorbia 'Diamond Frost.' It was a good start!
3) A couple of good rains to get that grass seed I planted on Sunday growing.
4) The Forsythia is blooming!
5) I saw a Sparrow Hawk in my yard.
Here are the lowlights of the week:
1) The rabbits continue to eat the buds off of the tulips.
2) I dumped a tray of plants on the dining room floor - some of the seeds had been in the fridge for stratification for a month! Who knows where my Delphiniums are now? Maybe inside the vacuum cleaner?
3) The tomato plants I started in early March still look like they are struggling to make it. I gave up on leaving them under the lights and moved them out to the porch, hoping the natural sunlight would help.
