I love the idea of celebration weeks!
And I am certainly capable of celebrating everything that is going on in my plant world as well as the rest of the plant world at any given moment in time despite the limitations imposed by this construct.
What I cannot do, however, is participate as I would like to within the constraints of the specified plants in the specified weeks...
"...this year we will be celebrating each plant type
while it's peaking in our gardens. "
because my plant types will not be peaking in my gardens at the designated times. So, for example, while " we" celebrate roses here on ATP, I will celebrate spring blooming bulbs along with a slew of other spring wonders (that I love more than roses but they don't even garner an ATP celebration week) while my roses work on growing leaves...
case in point:
May 7
after spring bulb week is long over, and after rose week is over, I will be sticking my nose in daffodils and daphnes, still waiting on those thorny primadonas to make buds...
"...we want the Celebration Weeks to be highly interactive. It won't be so much a time to read and learn, but a time to share. We'll want people to post pictures from their gardens that week. Talk about what's blooming and why you love them" is all well and fine...except for the subject limitation for the timeframe and the timelimit for the subject.
For example, Roses week Sat, April 25, 2015 to Fri, May 1, 2015, I will most definitely be celebrating gardening all week but not roses per se. As others have said--sure, I can still have fun watching others celebrate roses 'early' for me and on time for them. I could post photos of leafbudding canes and previous years' photos if I felt so inclined to participate in the celebration of roses, but, honestly, I'm much more inclined to be more interested in, swooning over, and photographing what I do have going on in my gardens than what I don't.
Maybe in the 'off weeks' we can celebrate the variety of what's actually happening in gardens all over the world since our plants will not necessarily conform to the ATP calender of events???
Having the photo contests and other mini-contests tied to the specific plant weeks when they occur prior to my plants' ability to get with the program is also a bit disconcerting for me...
In the case of plants that I have had for years, sure, I can post old pics taken with old camera and poor skills
But, I've got new plants and a new camera and a magic lens and I'm still learning how to take better pictures
I hope that we will get an early spring because I got a bunch of new spring bulbs. In my imagination I just know that I will get some fantastic pictures of their blooms this year... but, not by Fri, April 3, 2015
May 7
