I can’t say that March is my favorite spring month, but after this last week’s I’m not sure April is much better! After two amazing days, weather wise, at the beginning of the week so we could all enjoy the solstice it has been nothing but rain, or at least it feels like that. It is certainly too wet to get into the garden and get the next succession planted, so I wait.
We are down to the last seven crates of forced tulips, and all of them are in the greenhouse but two. The dirty room has enough space in it I can now spin around with my arms out wide! Well, one arm out wide, and the other one catching up.
It is so nice to be able to walk in and not have to slide in past all the tulip crates. It also looks as though my timing is good for a change and there won’t be a lag in tulip production. Hopefully the rest of the crops will time themselves nicely. Now when the dogs dash to their crates I don’t have to worry about accidents involving tulips.
I planted out the sweet peas that I wasn’t going to grow this year. They are really just for me, but if I have some stunners, I will share. They are an expensive crop to grow just in the labor, and I can’t make up that cost so I will grow for me, and as gifts.
On Friday between flower people I got all of the trees and shrubs fertilized as well as the peonies outside the garden fence. Next up is pruning the hydrangeas and the roses, and hopefully getting the next batch of cool flowers planted out and the perennials inside the garden fence cleaned up and fed. Never a dull moment for sure.
The narcissus are starting to be ready to harvest so soon there will be mixed bunches to offer as well. The orchard is starting to look lovely with all the spring bulbs starting to flower. when you drive in to pick up flower make sure you check out the beauty there.
I have been asked a few times when is the flower shed going to be open in Tuesdays. I would say shortly. I need to have enough flowers available to make it time efficient. When it happens I will let you know here as well as in the newsletter that I hope for you local people you are getting. Until then, the flower shed will just be open on Fridays from 10-2:00.
So I leave you with some random tulip photos taken during the week. Actually the first one is of the tulips that were offered last week. I do post on instagram what will be available the night before the flower shed opens.
The next photos are just random tulips in vases scattered in the kitchen. I hope you feel inspired, and enjoy them as much as I do.
So until next week, may the sun shine and the flowers bloom.
Allie. I dream of flowers, do you?