It has been a real busy day this morning I went to a local Garden Club flower arrangement class and it included lunch. Great fun
When I got home I headed to the gardens.

Beautiful arrangement, Holly!

Very interesting and pretty, Holly.

Yes, finially finished the spring rose pruning just now! It was much worse than usually what with all the winter damage this year. So I cut them way, way back. Next I need to put out my bag of Rose Tone Fertilizer and roses should be good. Of course as the leaves do come out I will have to start spraying again.

I survived the Winter with a week or more of nasty depression and anxiety, so I stayed quiet as to not spread my misery. All is better now and we are at this time digging out the hundreds of trees we lost to a nasty fungus that has just destroyed the Douglas Fir fields. It has certainly added to my moods but that is what farming is all about and you take the good with the bad. We just happen to have some of both just now.

Spring is here in NJ and the Star Magnolia is in full bloom, and the daffodil field is coming along at last. I am not selling them at the road stand this year but I am selling wholesale to the Farmers Market down the road if they need any. Otherwise, I am just watching them and smelling their beautiful aroma.

The Dogwood is is also beginning to form buds and leaves and this should be a good year if the winter did not kill the early growth. The Holly is still looking really burnt from the wind and cold. It is just too bad when you think how beautiful everything was. It is almost like someone threw bleach on all the poor holly trees. They are a fadded brownish color and no sign of recovering at this time.

That is the update from here just now. Hope to have more time to come back and visit soon. It is crazy here just now. Trying to recover and move forward. I feel sure we will be just fine, it is just so depressing to watch years of work and growth be dug out and thrown away especially when it is in the hundreds of trees.

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JB said:I survived the Winter with a week or more of nasty depression and anxiety, so I stayed quiet as to not spread my misery. All is better now and we are at this time digging out the hundreds of trees we lost to a nasty fungus that has just destroyed the Douglas Fir fields. It has certainly added to my moods but that is what farming is all about and you take the good with the bad. We just happen to have some of both just now.

Spring is here in NJ and the Star Magnolia is in full bloom, and the daffodil field is coming along at last. I am not selling them at the road stand this year but I am selling wholesale to the Farmers Market down the road if they need any. Otherwise, I am just watching them and smelling their beautiful aroma.

The Dogwood is is also beginning to form buds and leaves and this should be a good year if the winter did not kill the early growth. The Holly is still looking really burnt from the wind and cold. It is just too bad when you think how beautiful everything was. It is almost like someone threw bleach on all the poor holly trees. They are a fadded brownish color and no sign of recovering at this time.

That is the update from here just now. Hope to have more time to come back and visit soon. It is crazy here just now. Trying to recover and move forward. I feel sure we will be just fine, it is just so depressing to watch years of work and growth be dug out and thrown away especially when it is in the hundreds of trees.

Bought the new badge. COOL
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I hope your mood brightens quickly!

So I was out looking in my pond. 5 of my fish made over winter. This February was so cold the pond was frozen solid for weeks so I didn't think any fish would make it. So I was both surprised and happy to see them. 4 are the bright gold fish color and one is a pale pinkish white. They are all active today as we have had days of warmer weather to get them going.

Glad to hear about those fish, Rita!

JB, hope you feel better soon...

JB I am sure that your fields of daffs will lighten your spirits.

I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretch'd in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
By William Wordsworth (1770-1850).

I love it when the daffs bloom in the spring. Always so cheerful!

I started a thread about our trip to Fl. will post more pictures as I get time.
The thread "Mid-Atlantic Heads South" in Mid Atlantic Gardening forum

They're great pictures, Holly!

Sounds like you are having a wonderful time, Holly!

We are.

Went and got compost which now I have to spread out on my veggie beds. Probably going to need more to get it all finished.

How are the veggies doing, Rita?

Newyorkrita said:Went and got compost which now I have to spread out on my veggie beds. Probably going to need more to get it all finished.

Geesh ... I wish I could by good compost and mulch up here. I am already tired of shredding leaves.

Smiles,
Lyn

I bought bagged compost and put it out. Today I already went and bought my tomato plants. I got-

Big Boy 12
Better Boy 12
Early Girl 12
Juliet 6
Viva Italia 6
Rutgers 6
Patio 6
Beefsteak 6
San Marzano 6
Sunray 6
Jubilee 6

So that makes 84 plants!

what a wonderful harvest you will have, Rita!