Happy Birthday, Jeanne! I hope you have a great time with your husband.

Most of the tomatoes are up. Problem is that I had a couple pots in a sunny area in the house, one of the dogs saw something through the window, then jumped up and knocked them over. Fortunately, it looks like some of the seeds are salvageable, but a few definitely died.

Get better soon, Rj. Wonder if it's a bug going around; our whole family got a cold, too.

RJ: what are Tinka tulips? They look interesting! Sorry to hear you are under the weather. Now's not the time to be stuck inside.

Johannian: sorry about the tomatoes. Mine are outside and have not been happy now since they have rain on their leaves they look pretty perky! Hope yours are able to recover.

AM: still raining. And kind of chilly. Like to the point I may turn the heat back on today. Kind of chilly. The plants will have to learn to deal with cooler. Thus far they say tonight's low is 41. I'll see if that changes by mid afternoon.

I will have to bundle up and go take the cuttings. second on my list after putting sewing machines away. I am hoping to have luck in the short term with that.

And then I think I will try and finish up the dahlia layout. I know, I know! I've been yammering for weeks on this. I generally get started and pulled away to something else. Story of my days.

When I did the weed yesterday I did not see any that are ready to bloom. Will see what and when they might. I had some that look nice size and others that still look small and maybe that this is a growing year and not a blooming year.

I've plans for the rest of the day. Unsure where it will take me and how much luck I will have. Heat is back in and hope the chill in the air goes.

Hope gardens are looking good - even if only on paper!

Thank you all for the birthday wishes. I am having a relaxing day inside. But now that it has stopped raining, I think I will grab my camera and go for a walk around the flower beds. Maybe I will have a few pictures to post later.

ST, Tinka tulips are wild tulips
When open

Lovely tulips RJ! They are mighty slender and graceful looking.

Jeanne: glad the birthday is going well! Still raining here.

AM: went down to the basement and took the remaining inventory. I have more than I thought. And I have one I'm not sure on its health and if I get rid of it I'm good. I have 2 others of the same name. Both look good - one is a freebie this year and the other may be from my other plant. Will see what happens. So I think now I can finalize my list. Except there are 3 plants I'm not sure if I misnamed. They are usually a dark leafed plant and well, not that way right now. So I'm leaning more toward an oops on my part.

With time I guess I'll know - if they grow and if they bloom!

I took B'Dizz, my handicapped dog, for a walk in his stroller. We went out to the She Shed and sat in there for a while. Then we walled around the yard and took pictures of some new SDB Iris blooms.
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Both clumps side by side

gardenglassgems said: Thank you all for the birthday wishes. I am having a relaxing day inside. But now that it has stopped raining, I think I will grab my camera and go for a walk around the flower beds. Maybe I will have a few pictures to post later.

Sorry I missed your birthday but will do as Dad did with stop signs, wish happy birthday twice next year.

You got it in on time, RpR. It was a nice evening out. Otherwise, no difference from any other day.

Mornin all!

Super froggy out as my sister would say so very long ago. I think today is suppose to be fairly nice today. So yay for that. We have a family soirée to head to tonight so I need to make sure everyone has stuff to wear for it. I need to shorten pants, find something for myself, get presents wrapped etc.

In between there I'm hoping to head out and get cuttings taken, right now everything has sheets on top of them. I'll have to do the covering again tomorrow night. Seems this cold stuff wants to hang around and not leave. I'm fine if it goes and warms up to 50 at night.

I don't have much in the yard blooming right now. Tulips, daffies and hyacinth. But my numbers are way down in part to when I thought we could get the million dollar porch done. Boy did I have grandiose thoughts, as did the squirrels or whatever other creatures thought bulbs were a delicacy. If I think too heavily on it I'll just feel I keep failing. So I'll stop.

Has anyone got black metal baskets for planting and what do you do when things get rusty? I have my trough baskets that are in sad shape. I have read soaking in citric acid could remove the rust. I also have rust stop powder. Do you think either of these would be something to try? It appears to be more of a surface issue. You know, manufactured overseas stuff of course and replacement brackets are pricey unless I bought brand new baskets then they'd come with new ones. Go figure. I'd say the baskets are in fine shape, just not the brackets. And ditching the baskets just because sounds wasteful!

I will need to start looking ahead at nighttime temps and when might be a good time to begin getting things in the ground and plan things around that. I'll have to remember to pace myself so my body doesn't yell at me. As of late my body always yells at me. And somedays I like to yell back! I wish there was an answer for that. Because I don't 100% think they know.

Got to love autoimmunes. 🤬 when you have one you will end up with 2-3 more.

Boy, sounds like I'm a gloomydoomy this morn!

I hope the cutting harvesting goes well. And I hope rooting takes off well!

Started off raining at 5:30, then moved on to full-on snow by 8:15. Now a little bit of the snow is staying on the ground. What? I thought we were done with the white stuff!

66 and sunny, looks like a beautiful day here!

ST, try a wire brush on the rust spots, then respray

Don't need any snow here, long term forecast for this summer, upper Midwest, lots of 90 degree days

WOW can't believe you got snow, Johannian.

I have not gotten much done yet today. I did find and move 18 named Iris in pots and took them to the raised bed where they are going. I plan which Iris goes where ahead of time.

DH is mowing, and I am on my way back out to plant some of these Iris. I hope it isn't too muddy.

gardenglassgems said: WOW can't believe you got snow, Johannian.

That's our weather for ya. Wasn't even on the forecast that rain would happen, let alone snow. It was supposed to be sunny. Supposedly, it has snowed every single month of the year in South Dakota except for August. But even in June and July it has snowed. I was blown away when I heard that; I can't imagine snow in July.

It's stopped snowing, but there's still a light dusting on the ground.

Just as strange as going out there in mid January and to not needing a coat!

What Rj said on the rust. If brackets r bad then jury rig and go to Menards and find something that will work.

Sunny and very nice out today but honestly too wet to pull weeds. I need to dig up irises soon while I know what ones are what in this one spot. Mostly yellow and the yellow I love but it's overwhelmed other colors around it. It needs to be condensed big time. Luckily I have friends and family both who want some so they and other irises will be going to good homes.

Good morning. We are to get a little rain today. I asked my DB to come do a few things for me today when it isn't raining. I want him to hang an European deer head on my She He Shed. I also want him to help me put up our name sign which is on a large slab of wood. I would also like him to help me add some dirt to a raised bed or two but I may need to get the weeds cleaned out of them first.

I wish for everyone to have a delightful weekend.

Raining fairly hard outside right now with thunder. Cool.

But not cool that I have to work inside today. Maybe this afternoon I can get out for a while.

Rain or shine today was plant shopping day. Made me a bit mad cause I missed a great garage sale nearby that had fishing gear that I wanted to check out but got back too late to hit. Don't think they're gonna be up tomorrow. Need to check the paper and see. But got some great plants and had a great time.

I only spent a very short time outside today. It rained this morning and misted heavily this afternoon. My DB did come over and hung the European mount deer head on my She Shed. I think that is what this type of deer head is called. I will get a picture of it tomorrow. I went around and took pictures of some new blooms that were soaked from the rain.
SDB Iris Fires of Fiji

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