Re: how does your garden (or garden planning) grow?
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  • Subject: Re: how does your garden (or garden planning) grow?
  • From: &* L* <5*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 07:58:48 -0400
I, too, miss gardenchat, since I don't spend time on Facebook.
It has been good to hear of your garden plans.  I have been struggling to figure
out what I can do this spring since I had a fall and a broken hip over the Christmas
weekend.  I am getting around pretty well now, but don't think I will be able to
handle my hillside garden or do much bending for weed-pulling.  Old age - 88
years - has a lot to do with it, too.
 
Our winter was most peculiar - warm, even up into the 60s some days for the
months of January and February.  My white Hellebore has been spectacular
with more than 35 blooms. and about three weeks ago I took a bunch of blooms
from my conventional purple Hellebore to our garden club meeting.  Daffodils
are well up and  some of the early ones are showing buds.  Trees are definitely
budding out.  And then two days ago we had a so-called blizzard with a foot of
snow and temperatures down into the 20s.  (I used to be told that to be a blizzard
the temperatures must be below 20 degrees and the wind above 50 mph - with
more than a foot of snow.)  Anyway, today is bright and sunny, and already in the
upper 20s.  I think rain is predicted for the weekend.  Oh well. 
 
I really must get my head together and order at least things to plant in the pots
near the house. 
 
It was so good to hear from some of you
Auralie
 
In a message dated 3/16/2017 12:18:36 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 3a6a532b1@rewrite.hort.net writes:
After hearing from you all in your quest to help me figure out a plant, I realize how much I miss our gardenchat.  How are people fairing now that winter in either over or nearly over?

Here in the Sacramento Valley we are in full spring mode. Bulbs, trees, etc blooming.  Veggie garden is planted.  Allergies are horrible this year after all the rain that we got.

Made an impulse buy of a White Fairy Magnolia shrub.  The flowers smelled heavenly and I was sold at one sniff.  Got it home with the help of a friend, but now need to get someone out to dig a hole (through a big tree root) to get it in the ground.  Since I hurt my wrist last Fall I have had to rely on others to do major digging and certainly sawing. (although I did briefly try to saw through it before I came to my senses this evening.  And then sat with an icepack on my wrist for the next 30 min).


Theresa


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