Im getting ready to sow Himalayan Blue Poppies ...Anyone have suggestions...Help One can hope cant she....Ive heard they are hard to grow...I`ll slide over an do some reading.

Chelle,I havent decided which wintersowing thread to Follow....too many...

Seedlings doing very well..doing the Happy Dance

Got more seed to get growing ...I hope its not too late ..If soo lesson learned..Bacopa ? It will just be later...I got some started from reseeding last year...around my barrels..the seed wintered over...

Have a lot more seed waiting their turn counting down weeks

Cold as ever today nice bit of snow covering the ground

rain overnight, some melt still have snow.

Yeah, Lucy, it just seems to go on, and on, doesn't it?



Blue poppies. Nope, I'm no help. I still have last year's container, and I guess a miracle could still happen there, but I rather doubt it will. I think someone mentioned that those just about need to be sown right off the mother plant, so perhaps freshness is the key.

I was thinking about using Bacopa as a background plant this year, but it looks like I might go with lots of Lantana instead. I do, however, like some Bacopa in containers. It did really well here last year... in all our drought-y heat.

I haven't sowed any seeds for a while now, but I'm planning on doing some more today.

I saw the first announcement of impending spring today, and this time it was a brown-headed cowbird. The first migratory arrivals at my feeders are usually the red-winged blackbirds.
At less than 20 degrees right now, I'm not quite ready to do the happy-dance just yet, but soon.

Houseplants are going crazy right now. I've one in particular that seems to be reaching out to grab me each time I walk past it. I guess it's responding well to the lengthening days and the fish tank water, eh?

Thanks for the cowbird report Chelle.I can survive another day knowing they are on their way north.We dont see them until April and they are with Redwinged Blackbirds.

I honestly have no idea what that bird was thinking...it's going to have another miserable night tonight. The wind-chill this morning was awful.

Nine more jugs wintersown today. Several types of rudbeckia and assorted others, mostly perennials. I'm really looking forward to seeing if the Agastache 'Sunset Yellow' is as pretty as the few pictures I've seen show it.

I hope your WS perennials do great.

I have starlings ....do they leave? had not seen them all winter ...Il have to look for the cowbirds....I love watching them Take baths ,they are funny....They love my BBs an so do my Robins...talk about splish splash

Im off to water babies....wishing I would have ordered more seed thiss year..Instead of thinking I will find seed in stores....Ha !!!!

looking forward to somw what nicer weather this weekend...Oh after Friday`s possible lovley Mix,snow rain ice...dosent sound too bad for us....but others are not going to be that lucky...But it is still winter...

Decided to do a general walkabout the garden today as tomorrow it is supposed to pour all day so I will not be walking around the garden. Nothing much going on. This February cold snap we had seems to really pushed back spring from coming to the garden. Still patches of snow on the ground from that big storm afew weeks back. But the rain should wash them away. Hopefully it will get the bulbs growing. I do see more daffs poking their folliage above ground than were around before that big snow. Now if the cold would leave us they could really start to grow.

I saw on the news that there was lots of snow in the middle of the country with big storms. And north of us supposed to get lots of snow again. Boston supposed to get socked again. Forrtunatly it will be warm enough here that we end up with mostly rain, maybe a rain/snow mix here and there.

Think I might be rushing things?
http://www.hummingbirds.net/ma...

Hummingbirds would freeze to death around here lately. It is much too cold for them and nothing is growing.

As you can see the map doesnt show them here yet.Just the breeding range.
I figure late May.

I wish there were lots of hummers here in the summer but there just aren't that many. Still, I have lots of plants that attrack them so some do visit the garden. I just love to watch them. Such busy little things!

yes another big storm,we only got a touch of .... We have been missed all winter it seems...I like a good snow cover for my plants...I did a walk about an Saw a lot of wind burnt plants...We have had tremendous winds all winter...thats so hard on everything...Its very breezy today..

DH said something about hummers ,coming back too soon ? saw it on TV or the paper...I HOPE NOT... Ive never had Numerous Hummers at any given time,last summer we think we counted 7.. but I was at a home only a mile from here,they had sooo many you could not count them...They did have Multiple feeders..I have 3...I was in shock an amazment...That would be soo cool to have that many...I dont think it was fall either...dont remember what time of year seems to me it was Hot and green....Migratory ??? or just plane lucky...

Some pics from my winter garden.

No winter sowing outside here but I've got babies coming up inside! And the possibility of having a day above freezing tomorrow.

Boy-howdy! That's a lot of snow!

What do you have started indoors, Sue? Your gardens are always so amazing...I'd love to have a mental preview.

It is a lot of snow ! It has just gradually been building up all winter. We haven't had any above freezing weather for quite awhile so am looking forward to tomorrow. I have primula, pansies, penstemons, petunias, snaps, salpiglossis, some favorite columbine, a couple varieties oenethera, some more scotti clematis and I can't think of what else. I don't know where I'm gonna put it all when I put them in sixpacks and I don't know where I'm gonna plant it in my garden outside and I don't know where I'm gonna get the energy to plant them but I'm always optmistic!

Oh, boy! Sounds wonderful!

Are your primula up?

All of the plants I mentioned are up. I started a primula denticulata mixed colors cause all of mine had died down except one color and primula florindae which is new for me. The onethera are biennial and perennial but they don't live over here but they'll bloom the first year when I start them this early.

So far, I've just wintersowed my primula in jugs. I wonder if I should start some indoors as well? They're new to me this year, so I have no idea of what's the best way to start them. I'm very limited for indoor space, and I have no light set-up, so I usually do everything I can outdoors.

This is what I've started so far http://garden.org/blogs/entry/... .

Chelle,I read your winter sown list on your blog,I got tired just thinking about planting all those plants! I saw that you were starting penstemon palmeri, I love that variety. I've started it several times and even bought the plant but I've never gotten it to live over. I hope you have better luck