So I have planted all the perennials - with the exception of my coneflowers - they haven't arrived yet. I got in the three shrubs - the willow, the weigela and the beautyberry along with some additional purple wintercreeper under the sad looking forsythias.
This weekend I started my edamame, sage, lavender, and oregano seeds in the greenhouse. Last weekend I started the moonflowers and they are already a good three inches! Hopefully they take this year and I can add them as an annual ground cover in my rock garden.
I also planted some romaine and butter crunch lettuce seeds that I got from the garden last year. I covered them with a floating row cover just in case. I heard lettuce from seeds is not an easy task. I will wait a few weeks to see if anything comes up and if not, off to the nursery for plants I will go!
The past three days it has been over 60 degrees and close to 70 yesterday so hopefully we have shaken off the winter weather and spring has finally arrived.
Have lots of Spring bulbs blooming too - giant hyacinth, daffodils, and jonquils. The tulips are coming up and thankfully the new ones I planted aren't sterile, I can see the flower bulb inside the leaves. There are still plenty of sterile ones around the yard that I need to dig up. I heard if you dig them up and plant them with ones that actually do bloom they will not be sterile anymore. I have to remember that in the fall!
Pictures of the blooming beauties to follow. I was on vacation for the past week and have so much to rake, weed and basically take care of the pictures will just have to wait.
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