So, the threatened promised late season snow storm seems to have missed us. (”Darn!” she exclaimed, in a voice oozing sarcasm.) In fact, except for the fact that it’s 32 degrees and the sky is an oppressive gray, the weather is pretty much a non-event today. For the first time in a couple of weeks, the wind isn’t howling and prowling over, around and under the house in search of a way to slither in and it’s dry as a bone. It almost seems nice out. Mom, John and I took advantage of the non-weather to clean up the yards a bit. Mom and I raked and toted branches, leaves, and dead vegetation to the garden, where John tended a fire to dispose of the mess.
A collection of gardening catalogs arrived over the past week and between drooling over their pages and the outside work today, I am really in the mood to start working in the garden and flower beds. I thought maybe you could use a hint of spring in your day, too, so enjoy a peek at some of the plants I’m thinking about including in the gardens this year.
From Burpee Seeds, I’m including:
New Red Lightening Tomatoes. Aren’t they gorgeous?
Black Pearl Tomatoes, which come with two flavors….a regular tomato flavor right off the vine and a Concord grape (!!) flavor when chilled.
Zinnia are my favorite flowers and the Zowie Zinnia promises to be a dazzler with 3-5″ blooms. Butterflies love zinnia!
and Honey Bear Sunflowers is just too cute.
From Spring Hill Nursery, I’m thinking of getting:
The absolutely gorgeous, color-changing, Kaleidoscope Hydrangea.
A Dwarf Orange Tree, that promises fruit from mid-fall to mid-spring. It’s actually more of a houseplant that gets to spend its summers outside.
A favorite of Thomas Jefferson, the Climbing Shell Plant is so pretty….but where to put it? It’s a vine that grows up to 25′ tall!!
That’s all I’ve come up with from the catalogs (so far), but I have some other things in mind like raspberry bushes, salad greens and I’d like to try some of the pole apple trees.
Did I make you want to go out and play in the dirt? Or at least want to sit in the garden?