purple blossoms, and yellow. eco-activism.
I'm daydreaming deliriously over new garden plans now that we've had a warm week. This spring has been awfully compressed, bloom-wise. Bloom times are overlapping, or almost overlapping, in a really delightful way. I'm so delighted with what has popped up I just can't help scheming about improvements. Gardening is like that.
I have transplanted, and I am well pleased. I have found seedlings that I scattered sprouting, including some rare, native plants, and I am rejoicing. I still want more plants.
My current thoughts are revolving about where we can plant vegetables. I've given up on my plans to renovate some of our beds. Will instead give that area back to the grass so that Sparkles has more room to run around out back. And I'm going to get rid of all the lawn out front, so that the raised beds can be for veggies and the areas surrounding for flowers.
This plan involves getting rid of the sunchokes (see my userpic). They're gorgeous, but FAR too much work and MUCH too big for our front yard. I'm digging and weeding and digging and weeding. Suspect eradication will be a multi-year task.
Never did do my usual playing with graph paper and seed catalogs this winter, what with be somewhat preoccupied. But I'm thinking about doing it now -- at least, the graph paper bits. We can make do with old seeds we already have for what we want to actually plant this year.
However, I persuaded my love that what I really wanted for my birthday (besides the baby boy) was not bike repair, but a chance to go to the Schuylkill Center Native Plant Sale during the members-only time.
This is what we got:
Actaea racemosa, Aquilegia canadensis, Asclepias tuberosa, Carex appalachia, Oenothera fruticosa, Phlox paniculata, Polystichum acrostichoides, Pycnanthemum muticum, Viola pedata, and a Pinxterbloom azalea
I AM SO HAPPY.
Will I plant everything and then fret about whether they'll live and then fall in love with a new kind of plant and obsess about getting it? Yes. But I will say that we wandered the plant sale and recognized a surprising number of things because we've already acquired them.
I have transplanted, and I am well pleased. I have found seedlings that I scattered sprouting, including some rare, native plants, and I am rejoicing. I still want more plants.
My current thoughts are revolving about where we can plant vegetables. I've given up on my plans to renovate some of our beds. Will instead give that area back to the grass so that Sparkles has more room to run around out back. And I'm going to get rid of all the lawn out front, so that the raised beds can be for veggies and the areas surrounding for flowers.
This plan involves getting rid of the sunchokes (see my userpic). They're gorgeous, but FAR too much work and MUCH too big for our front yard. I'm digging and weeding and digging and weeding. Suspect eradication will be a multi-year task.
Never did do my usual playing with graph paper and seed catalogs this winter, what with be somewhat preoccupied. But I'm thinking about doing it now -- at least, the graph paper bits. We can make do with old seeds we already have for what we want to actually plant this year.
However, I persuaded my love that what I really wanted for my birthday (besides the baby boy) was not bike repair, but a chance to go to the Schuylkill Center Native Plant Sale during the members-only time.
This is what we got:
Actaea racemosa, Aquilegia canadensis, Asclepias tuberosa, Carex appalachia, Oenothera fruticosa, Phlox paniculata, Polystichum acrostichoides, Pycnanthemum muticum, Viola pedata, and a Pinxterbloom azalea
I AM SO HAPPY.
Will I plant everything and then fret about whether they'll live and then fall in love with a new kind of plant and obsess about getting it? Yes. But I will say that we wandered the plant sale and recognized a surprising number of things because we've already acquired them.