I am Ready for March to Go!
March is never the easiest month to go through. The weather flucuations; the sleet, snow and rain mixed in with wind and possible chance of sun are taking its toll on my psyche. I just want sun, temps in the mid 40’s (don’t want to rush spring) rain at night, less gale force winds…you know, weather perfection. I know, this is March, and in reality, much of April as well. At least I have flowers to share.
This last week has been the first week that I have been able to totally circumnavigate the flower garden. I told myself I am not allowed in the garden until the snow is gone from that space. As you can see…
This promise to myself is driving me crazy. I am peering over the fence as much as possible, but in reality, not much is happening wether I am in the garden or not. Soon I hope, but until then, I just hang over the fence and look as hard as I can for signs of green. I do have shoots of narcissus showing up outside the garden though… and that helps. Sorta.
What I don’t have outside though I have happening inside. In the greenhouse I have cool flower seedlings, perennial seedlings, narcissus and the first round of ranunculus and anemone happening. It is getting a bit full in there at the moment.
Many of the seedlings will go into the tunnel in two? weeks, the crates of narcissus are ones that I wintered over between the tulip beds and have brought in to fill the floral gap,(that experiment seems to be working so far), and the first of the ranunculus and anemones have been planted out into the used tulip crates. I don’t have room for much else at the moment.
Tomorrow is the last batch of tulips to leave the cooler. If that isn’t a big yay I don’t know what is. That means that I have hauled 45 crates of forced bulbs in since the end of January. Thirty eight of them being tulips. The remaining have been dutch iris which I won’t do again, hyacinths and narcissus. The flower bunches for Easter will be stunning that is for sure.
What ever you do, don’t fret about not having tulips. The cooler is full of tulips ready to greet you each week well into May, and probably June when the peonies flower.
So I continue to seed, circumnavigate the garden multiple times during the day, harvest tulips, hyacinths and narcissus in small amounts, circumnavigate the gardens a few more time cause something might have happened in the last two hours when I was out there last and impatiently wait… and wait… and wait.
Meanwhile, next Friday and Saturday Garth will be here with his digger making more garden space for me for all the the plants I ordrered during the winter and that is very exciting. Also the chrysanthemum plugs should be sent next week…so I will soon be starting to get the fall crops ready…And, I have already gotten the tulips order forms for next year! Life of a flower grower is never boring.
So until next week, Allie. May this weeks dreams about flowers be less dramatic than last weeks flower dreams!
I heard an interesting quote this morning….
“Keep sowing seeds. It is a declaration of Hope.” Georgie Newbery.
I think it is entirely appropiate for our times. Growing flowers is looking towards to future and peacefuller times.
Allie