That Friday is Groundhog day? And we will be halfway through winter? Of course as I say this it is snowing outside, but the days will be noticeably getting longer and there will be flowers. Yay!!!
I am only doing minimal flower growing at the minute. Every two days I water the tulip crates, about every hour I check on the seedling to see if they are germinating, such busy work. No, what I am really spending my time on for Flowers at Lottarock is getting my act together. I’m trying to figure out how to improve my newsletter, which is different from the blog, learning how to do reels for Instagram because that is where the viewers are, so they say, getting my Quickbooks organized, new LLC, have to be even more serious….the rest of my time is spent going to physical therapy, which is making a huge difference in my range of motion and hopefully strength, doing my physical therapy exercises, and wearing my bone stimulator that will hopefully get the stink’n clavicle to start to heal. That, takes up to three hours a day. Boring I know but it is good that I have so many ‘Office’ projects.
I always question my flower growing, especially the tulips. I wonder did I get the number of weeks right for the chilling before I pulled the crates? Are they doing anything? Are there any flower buds? The first tulip crate pull is always the most excruciating, the wait! I must fondle those Apricot Beauty stems daily to see if I can feel flower buds, being careful not to crush them, and I think, I really think, that by the time I write this next Sunday, I might, fingers crossed, be able to show you the first tulips of the season. I am on pins and needles with anxiety…I should know better but still.
The flower farm is still quiet, nestled under snow…inside the lavender has germinated, as has the dianthus, phlox, the start of the delphinium and echinacea and quite possibly the columbine. The next big sowing is coming up soon, but for now it is office work and healing.
Since I have no flowers that I have grown yet, I will share the Witch Hazel ‘primavera’ pictures that I took yesterday. I thought my eyes were deceiving me, but I have color in the garden. She (our old cat Fidgit is buried underneath), is blooming about three weeks early, but I will take the color for sure. Enjoy the color. I certainly am.
So, until next week. I dream of flowers, do you? Allie