Garden Journal

Species tulip, a variety of clusiana, I think. Should perennialize and spread in my zone, fingers crossed.

Nice day today, worked on the hellebores. Usually, I’d do this in early April, but this weather. I’d ordered some new hellebores from Etsy, and they seem nice and healthy. Some are definitely bigger than others, but they all seem fine, from HostaKing (search for ‘Lenten rose’): https://www.etsy.com/shop/HostaKing I also dug up and moved a

Potted on my little tomato seedlings — remember when you replant tomatoes, bury the stems up to the first set of leaves. Tomatoes are wacky — they’ll develop new roots all up the buried stems, making for a bigger, stronger plant. I have SO many tomatoes. And I ordered more from the Tomato Lady. In

Hardy starter plants coming along under the grow lights and on the self-watering tray. Maybe two more weeks until it’s safe to plant them out…

Two days of 75F weather have defeated me, and I have given up and planted my Trader Joe’s hellebores, knowing it means I’m now committed to checking and watering them as needed. I plant these in pots for now, and at some point, when I want something else there or when they’re done blooming, I’ll

Creeping phlox, bought as a tiny starter plant on Etsy, , starting to bloom under the grow lights.

Countdown – 4 days ’til launch party! Put together the first of the raffle baskets, garden-themed. One free ticket with entry to the launch. This basket (I’ll give one out at 4:30, 5:30, and 6:30) includes: • one signed copy of Perennial, a garden romance• a set of 4 paperwhite greeting cards (my design, based

Garden log 2/27/24. Went out and did a little more pruning (buddleia, rose bushes), collected blooms of five different hellebores. More coming — many are still tightly-budded or barely sprouted. The one at the bottom is the first perennial I planted, right after we bought the house, even though I knew it’d be many months

Little walk around the front garden on my way to swim. Crocus tommasinianus (“tommies”) and snowdrops (plant as bulbs in fall), hellebores.