Outside it is cold and white having a fresh 7.5 inches of snow delivered last night but inside it is flower time. That is right, I have flowers! Better yet? Plenty to go around to erase those winter blahs.
Tulips, narcissus and very possibly hyacinths that I am trialing. I will send out the newsletter giving details on Thursday for Friday’s blooms to remind you all but the flower shed or rather the tool shed at this point will be open on Friday Feb 14, that’s right, Valentine’s Day so get some flowers for a special someone as well as yourself. Anyway, the shed will be open from 10-2:00, or until sold out. Because these are the first flowers of the season I don’t expect them to last long so don’t dally. Oh yeah, wear your boots. We might be shoveled but there are still patches of snow.
Besides flowers happening, so are the seedlings. Germination is looking good for the seeds that have been started and the dirty room is really getting full. It is a good thing I am tall because the paths are about twelve inches wide.
I had a moment of weakness last week and because they had just become available I have ordered another fifty flowering shrub, foliage liners. So sometime in mid March, 90 bare root plants will be arriving on my doorstep, along with the forty willows to root. I hope most of this snow will be gone by then because I have plants to plant. I might have some space in the cooler to hold them, they could possible go out into the greenhouse, but even that is going to be filling up quickly. We will just have to wait and see I guess. At least I know where I am going to plant them.
Soon I will be trudging out to the willows to start harvesting them, and also the lovely yellow stemmed cornus to round out the early spring offerings.
I will send this over to Steve now so he can proof read me and write his little ditty.
Until next week, Allie. I dream of flowers, do you?
