So far in April we have had snow, days in the 60’s, beautiful sunny days with incredible wind that makes it feel like its 30 degrees out, warm days with little sun, and days with no rain. Which we need, especially this time of year when everything needs that boost to emerge out of the ground and flowers .
Despite the lack of rain, spring is slowly happening. I have one full crate of tulips left in the dirty room and two partial crates so we could almost have a party in the dirty room now there is so much space to move around in. The dogs are wondering what has happened to their obstacle course to get to their crates. The seed rack has been cleared out to make room for this week’s sowing of the summer flowers, the greenhouse has been emptied (sorta) to make room for the seedlings that came out of the dirty room, and the tunnel planting has begun and that will get finished up tomorrow.
Tomorrow the ranunculus and anemones go into the tunnel.
The last of the bareroot stock went into the garden so besides the six crabapples, the woody garden otherwise known as the twiggery now has 16 lilacs. I still have six hydrangeas to be planted but they arrived fully leafed out so I am hauling them in at night when it gets below freezing along with the five roses. They are keeping each other company in a bulb crate for the time being. Unless I am crazy, I do believe the twiggery is about planted to capacity. If I succumb to buying more woodies, they will have to go somewhere else.
Drone shot of the twiggery. The grey stripes are the plants that got planted last spring. Where you see brown earth is what Garth did, and this was removing tree roots, rocks and regrading. At the top on the right are the crabapples and the 16 lilacs, two rows worth plus two. Out of view on the left is the regraded bank of the pond to the east and south. It is amazing. The first bed on the left is for two perennials that really like to run so they will contained in their box, and the next bed was tilled today and that is for the hydrangeas that will go in when the rest of the farm leafs out. That is the major project of this year in a nutshell.
Besides all of the hard yakka, I did have some fun playing with flowers. I didn’t sell out on Saturday at FlagLeaf so I had some flowers to play with.
This is called a mash up of colors and flowers. I used what I had. Tulips on the left from Friday, the hyacinths from the week before as well as the tulips on the right. A few of the flowers I forced just cause, and the greenery is all at least a week old. Not my best, but still, color.
Yesterday I created this with the first of the outside flowers.
I think that is about it for last week. This coming week is more of the same, just different. The weather is supposed to be good, I hear rain is in the forecast, fingers crossed.
So until next week, Allie. I dream of flowers, do you?
