Hey, friends. Quick note that we’re testing out game nights at the SLF — we did Among Us last week, and the next one is this Friday starting at 5 CST. I’ll be hosting an online game of Codenames. (Team-based word association game.) No need to know anything in advance; I’ll teach the game, which […]
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This is your annual reminder that even though it’s snowing today after a warm spell, all your early spring flowers will be fine. The snowdrops will be fine. The viburnum buds will be fine. The little daffodil and tulip shoots you see peeping up will be fine. If it were a really hard and extended
It’s gorgeous outside today, and there’s lots of outside tasks to do, not to mention that I have a host of seedlings to transplant, but apparently my brain decided that today was the day I would plant up the terrarium my in-laws bought me for my Christmas present, so here we are. (Thanks, Ann Whyte!)
Carefully uncovering more of the hellebores, always a delight. I’ve trimmed off the old leaves — you don’t have to, but they get kind of raggedy, and the new leaves are emerging now. If you’re planting new hellebores this season, place them ideally in semi-shade; dense shade will reduce flowering. But since they bloom so
Some of my pots are still too frozen to work in, but in others, the soil has thawed for the top six inches, which is enough to get a hellbore in. The hellebores we’re getting from Trader Joe’s are generally VERY root-bound — I had to cut one pot to get the plant out. If
Trader Joe’s has their $9.99 hellebores in, so I picked up three of them. (Hellebores are usually closer to $25 in nurseries.) I’m going to try what I did last year — start them in planters so I get flowers in the garden as early as possible, then move them into the ground once they’re
Dragged the whole family outside for an hour to take down Christmas, now that the flowers are coming up. Goodbye, lights and ornaments. See you in nine months. Hello, magnolia buds! NOTE: Kavi can not only get up on a ladder and do stuff now, she can reach higher than I can. I can’t even.
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It’s always a little bit of a dilemma in the early days of spring, when the temperatures have suddenly shot up to 50 and a gardener is dying to get properly stuck in there — but there’s still a lot of pollinators hibernating in the leaf litter, so if you can resist the urge to
There was a lot of transplanting and starting new seeds the last few days, which I didn’t take the time to log, so please just consider it as read that any given day this time of year, I may spend 15-30 minutes puttering with the seedlings. at the very least, checking in and watering thems
