Sunday, March 17, 2024

Sunday

 



Beautiful today but breezy. Temperature in the 60's before we return to winter next week. The first week of spring will be cold. We were spoiled this week with temperatures in the 70's. I looked for pansies yesterday and was disappointed with the tiny selection at Home Depot so I didn't buy any. I'll wait until next weekend and go to the nursery. Some nights are going to be below freezing next week so I have time. I had to have something that looked springtime, so I hung a wreath on the front door and hung my new watercolor painting on the door for now. Can't help but know it's spring with the smell of the hyacinths in bloom on the porch.






Friday, March 15, 2024

First Blooms

 

The area to work on this spring. Remove all the ivy. Fix the boarder so soil won't leak out. Add some fresh soil then I can decide what I want to plant. I won't be pulling the ivy someone else will. As to the tree stumps, haven't decided if I'll spend more money to have them removed. Dwarf iris was the first to bloom at my house.

Narcissus


Hyacinths just started opening today. Kind of early but they smell wonderful.


Pansies from fall. It's time to plant the containers but I have to get some cool season annuals first. It's been in the 70's the past few days but will return to the 40's tomorrow.

Thought I planted these in a container on the porch, but the taller ones are on the porch.

Anemones and tulips also.

Friday, March 8, 2024

The Bulbs

 

Amaryllis starting to open up. I have to take better care of my seedlings and have more to start. Haven't been really motivated to a lot of seed starting, but I'm excited that it's almost spring and we gain another hour of light on Sunday.

Pelargoniums from the Philadelphia Flower Show.

Bulbs are doing well on the porch. Shame to say that somewhere in this clutter are a bag of unplanted bulbs.


Can't remember what these are. They don't look like allium.


Bulbs at the flower show last Saturday.


I took other pictures, but my camera phone didn't begin to capture their beauty. Going to look for some pansies tomorrow to do some containers with cool season annuals. I'll have to wait until Sunday because we are expecting heavy rain tomorrow.


Sunday, February 18, 2024

The Weekend

Amaryllis in bloom. This may be the last one for a while.
 We had our second snow storm this weekend, but it wasn't as bad as the one earlier this week. The trees looked so beautiful, but the snow was wet and heavy and had started to fall from the trees before I got a picture.

New pansy watercolor. I have to get a frame for it.

Coleus, nicotiana, gomphrena, and blue Victoria salvia started today. I also sowed snapdragons. Tomorrow maybe some vegetables; cabbage, bok choy, tomatoes, and peppers. My foxgloves, a few asters, and stock need to be transplanted. I will try to save some sad looking pansies that were left in the dark too long and the stems elongated. The plan is to bury the stem up to the leaves. We shall see if this works or if I throw them away.



More forcing vases arrived. I'm waiting for one more.



 

Sunday, February 4, 2024

Sunday

I edited my post and lost it, so I'll start again. Finally, a sunny day with blue skies. Took advantage of it and did some work on the sunporch.

Didn't have quite the show I expected with my hyacinths, but I'll take it.

What happened to that hyacinth?





I still have a few containers of paper whites still to bloom.

Started asters, stock, and foxgloves a week ago.

Stock was the first to germinate.

Will start the vegetables and herbs soon.

Stacked the remainder of firewood and made room for the containers.




Trying the fig again.

Needs watering.


Not spring yet but I'm over snow. It took 700 days to snow in Philly. Hope we go for another 700 days.





 
Foxgloves

Stock


Asters





Started 2 types of pansies which are in a black back bag to give them darkness to germinate.


Will wash when I get ready to plant more seeds, soon.