Re: Spring at the Morgan's too!

> to pick up
> some face soap last week and came out with 3 red lilies, a cyclamen and an
> Eryngium planum (Sea Holly) and a bunch of seeds

Yes, we MUST have our priorities!  It's pretty hard this time of year to
leave the store with just soap.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 5:25 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Spring at the Morgan's too!


> We had heavy straight line winds and rain.  A store up in Xenia (the place
> the native American's called the Valley of the Big Winds and that is known
> for being heavily hit by tornados repeatedly) lost its roof.  It looked
like
> it had been cut off from what I saw on T.V.  I doubt I could be convinced
to
> settle in Xenia, myself.  Although most of the morning we were bathed in
> sunshine and 70+ degree weather.  I DID NOT want to be tied to a desk!
>
> I just ordered an Oak Leaf Hydrangea, an Adendophora (ladybells) and a
> Eupatorium 'Atropurpureum' (Joe Pye Weed) for my new garden bed.  I can
> hardly wait!!!  I'm so excited.  I still have half the lasagna bed to
> install as soon as I get home with daytime enough to haul materials out
> there to finish it!
>
> Of course, we're expecting Snow two-four days next week, but I KNOW spring
> is on its way!  My Lenten Rose is right on schedule!  Marge was right; the
> flowers grow more magnificent with the age of the plant!  Oh, and my
crocus,
> both blue and yellow are now in full bloom most places in the yard.  Then
> along the driveway, I have 5 iris reticulata already blooming.  Oh, and I
> think I found some lungwort seedlings, too!  They are so cute!  It all
> happened in less than a week (3-4 days really.)
>
> Yes, I've got the 'bug' really bad right now!  I went to Wal-Mart to pick
up
> some face soap last week and came out with 3 red lilies, a cyclamen and an
> Eryngium planum (Sea Holly) and a bunch of seeds (10 packets of sweet
> alyssum among them.  I always get volunteers from the previous year, but I
> wanted some for the new bed too.)
>
> I cleaned out more of the patriotic garden today with my coat on.  (It's
in
> the 40's--and was all night and will be through the night to tomorrow
> morning when the temps will start to drop so that it can snow on my flower
> parade next week.  Of such is life.)  The daffodils are a good 5" out of
the
> ground, and the other spring plants--hyacinths and some tulips among them)
> have just breached the soil line.  I left some leaf cover on the more
tender
> plants knowing snow was coming.  I took mother for a little walk in the
yard
> today so she could see the blooms and the new growth!  What bulbs I put in
> the ground three years ago have multiplied, making nice colonies here and
> there.  I'm really excited!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf
> Of Jesse Bell
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 10:26 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Spring!
>
> Well, it came in like a LION here...let me tell ya!  Monday (the 1st) was
> incredibly windy and stormy.  Yesterday...flash flood warning, tornado
> warnings all over the place.  Kind of early for tornados.  Daffodils are
> popping up though.  WOO HOO.
>
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