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Seed Planting

18 Sunday Mar 2012

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bachelor buttons, black eyed susans, coneflowers, nature

I planted some seeds about two weeks ago. I  put them in my plant “nursery” area where good things seem to come up on their own. Seeds I planted I am going to do an experiment and plant them in seed cups too to see which do better. I want Black Eyed Susans (Rudbeckia, Tiger Eye Hybrid and Indian Summer from Burpee) in August and I’ve only had random success with them in the past. Random meaning I planted several seed packages and got maybe two plants. But they were wonderful plants. Last year, I planted the seeds too and got nothing. They seem tempermental. So this year, I tried again. I planted Coneflowers (Echinacea, Magnus) too since I keep reading about them.  I hope my new seeds grow soon. We are having a winter storm today so at least they are getting watered. Here is a nice Scabiosa from my garden.Scabiosa

 

Bachelor Buttons growing by the rose.

 

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Ever-blooming

13 Tuesday Mar 2012

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outdoors, plants, silver city new mexico

Today Annie’s Amazing Nursery catalog arrived and I can’t believe how fabulous it is. I took a pen and circled everything I ever wanted as I flew on the plane to Arizona. Now I am sitting in Silver City, New Mexico and it is snowing, plans for planting summer flowers put on hold as I take in the drastic weather in my parka that I grabbed on my way out the door.

I chased my sister away because she was talking too much as we sit in the Lion’s Den café; she is talking about art and the snow and drinking a tall latte with a tall foam full of fat. She does not like to be silent, especially not on the “day before”– no today we are both chattering away as if we don’t have a care. Tomorrow, we will drive sixty silent miles to visit my Aunt’s house to clean out her closets. Forgive me for not talking of gardens right away as I sit here in a strange coffee house, which the proprietor just told my sister won a Willy Wonka decorating contest, explaining the giant foam peppermints and candy canes hanging from the walls. Forgive me for distractions of chatter.

In my suitcase my Annie’s catalog waits along with my plans for my “fabby” garden that will bloom continually and will never feel snow.

Nope, my garden will fill my thoughts as I lift up the heavy hangers, carrying dry cleaner bags full of carefully ironed clothes out the back door to the car where we will pile them in, armful by armful, trying to be as fast and cheerful as we can and not worry my uncle too much, who stands alone with his dog by the door. The snow left and the sun came out, but still the fields are yellow and the wind blows through my sweatshirt. Our aunt loved flowers. I think of taking a cutting of her geraniums, but I never go in the front door. And would they survive winter outside anyway? If my aunt were here, they would be inside and she would be tending them now, but I don’t see them anywhere so I forget it and concentrate on stuffing the car so full that we will never have to go back again.

No, I will not think of that. I will think about my garden and the blooms that will last all summer. It will be drought-tolerant, deer-tolerant, and ever-blooming. Penstemon barbatus, achillea ageratum, geranium magnificum, and Cynoglossum Amabile “Azul”—I just like the sound of it all, like an incantation, something that’s already alive.

 

Here are pictures from South western New Mexico the second week of March, day after snow, at Bear Mountain Lodge, the gardens and views from that location.

Maze at Bear Mountain

 

 

View from driveway

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Daffodils and Stuffed Animal Tree

03 Saturday Mar 2012

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daffodils, flowers, garden, narcisuss

People are asking me, “What are all those yellow flowers?” They are daffodils (officially Latin name Narcissus). I planted about three dozen of them last fall. My goal was to have a sea of daffodils in the empty dirt near my light post. Well, I do. I have some fancy white daffodils too. I’m not sure how, but I am growing them around the yard. They are quite striking.

“I wandered lonely as a cloud…”

Daffodils remind me of Wordsworth and his sister and I could look up the poem  or you could: http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Poetry/WordsworthDaffodils.htm.  I forgot how much I liked that poem. I went to the Lake District in England to see Wordsworth’s flowers, but it was November. The daffodils were buried under the ground waiting for spring, cold beneath the empty trees.

But if you want scientific details on daffodils, go here:   http://www.daffodilusa.org/index.html.

Or look at my pictures and make things up. I added a fun one of my fairy house and my stuffed animal tree. Reminds me of the bottle trees I saw when I lived in Alabama, but since we are in Southern California, my bottle tree is made from expensive Build A Bear animals that my dog likes to chew. For some reason, he only chews up the Build A Bears, and since they are too expensive to throw out, I started hanging them in my tree. You might say I should wash them, but he always finds them, slobbers them up and kills plants while trying to bury them, and no one but me is allowed to kill plants in my yard!

It is March. Alleluia. I hate January and February. Thank goodness they are over and spring is almost here.

“And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.”

Daffodil patch

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