2022 flowers & garden

Kaila said:
https://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheet/forsythia/

Are you able to get this link, to see pics of it?
I tried to copy-paste pictures from the web here, but they were all rejected, as not the right forms to do that.
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Only 34 more days until spring! Anybody remember Pogo? He said "Spring has sprung, the grass is riz. I wonder where the flowers iz."

The flowers are gonna be in my garden. The lawn is fescue and stays green all year round. The flowers "iz" another story, but today if there are any in stock yet, I'm gonna get some that won't mind a little chill between now and about mid-March.

When it's sunny, I'm a happy camper. It's supposed to be sunny until Thursday. I won't mind on Thursday because I'll be at work anyway.
 
@Georgiagranny
Your post reminded me of our wonderful pansy and violet varieties,
which are the first things one could plant, here...
(later on, in about 60 days or so, when one could possibly plant anything, here:rolleyes:)

and those pansy plants, are always very welcome, and cheerful and bright, up North hereabouts. They quickly become full of buds and flowers, repeatedly,
and they never mind some cold chilly spells, during very early Springtime.:D

Hope that you, will find something at your garden center this week, that suits your area and you! :love:🧑‍🌾🌱🌿☘️🦋
 
OH! Now I see while reading in another thread,
that you already have loads of pansies, and that was mostly all they had today, at your garden center. :oops::rolleyes::confused:

BUT, I saw that you got Ixia bulbs! Hurray for those! :D🤩🥳😊
I am glad you found them!
 
Kaila said:
Yes, many different types.
Which ones did you get , @Georgiagranny ?

Are you putting them in (right now at this moment? :LOL::ROFLMAO::LOL:)
Or will you need to wait a week or more, to plant them?
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I dunno. The packet says Ixia and the picture is what I've had in the past. I'll have to take a look.

They didn't go in today. Maybe wait a week or two? I don't want them to succumb to a hard frost. It's not likely that we'll have another one, but you never know...
 
Georgiagranny said:
I dunno. The packet says Ixia and the picture is what I've had in the past. I'll have to take a look.

They didn't go in today. Maybe wait a week or two? I don't want them to succumb to a hard frost. It's not likely that we'll have another one, but you never know...
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Probably good idea to wait. I assume they don't go in very deep, and if you got a few mild days, and possibly rain, they'd sprout up very quickly, likely too.
 
Kaila said:
Probably good idea to wait. I assume they don't go in very deep, and if you got a few mild days, and possibly rain, they'd sprout up very quickly, likely too.
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I just looked at the packet, and all it says is Ixia Mixed with no other name. It also says "summer blooming" but in the heat of summer here, they get wilty. We'll see. The others I had were planted where the soil didn't drain well so they didn't do well. I've chosen some other spots for them this time. I'm going to plant them in clumps of 20...so four patches of them in with other flowers.

Hoping to find globe amaranth (gomphrena) plants. They were hard to start from seeds and didn't do well. I'll put the amaranth in the same "neighborhood" as the Ixia.
 
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Fooey. The globe amaranth plants are pretty spendy. I can't decide whether to order them or not. Add in shipping and they'll cost as much as buying potted ones at the garden center. There's just one thing: last year the garden centers had none. Nope. Not a single one at any garden center. What?

And I'm really itching to plant the ixia bulbs. Our forecast for the next 10 days is for very mild weather, but who knows after that? In 10 days the ixia will have sprouted. What if there's a frost? I asked Mother Nature about her plans for our spring in the South. She's been very tight-lipped about it. I swear! That woman can be a real *itch when she wants to be.

I am, for sure, going to plant the forget-me-not seeds. These are perennials and take a long time from planting to first bloom so they may not even bloom this season.

And there are three pavers on the patio that really need to be reset. It's not a chore that I look forward to at all. Not look forward to? Yeah, well, they've needed to be reset for a couple of years now, and it's still not done! However, yesterday DD and I were in Ross where there was an outdoor rug that wanted to follow me home. I'm determined to reset those three pavers before taking up the worn old rug that's out there and putting down the one that insisted on following me home. Nice thing about the new one is that it matches the cushions on the patio chairs.

So that's the plot that I've hatched for today. Please think positive thoughts that I get it all accomplished so that sitting on my dead center later won't make me feel guilty ;)
 
Well, so much for "for sure" I'm planting the forget-me-nots. The pavers turned out to be a bigger job than first thought. There were...I dunno...nine? 10? A whole bunch. And it took all morning. I'm bushed! Maybe the flowers will get done tomorrow. Too tired to do it today even though it takes almost no effort.
 
The pavers were a big and somewhat daunting project, so that's great you made headway with that one!(y)

And moving pavers, helps you to justify that you didn't try harder than you did, to discourage that new rug from following you home, right? :D:giggle:😄

And seed and flower plantings are much easier and more fun, than that pavers job, so you can now look forward to planting.

I love the gomphrena, too.
I found that even very, very small (cheap) starters from a garden center, did very well.
And, you are right, that they don't start well from seed.
But you don't know if your garden center will stock gomphrena this year? hmmmmm.......
Would they know?
And would their word be any more reliable than Mother Nature, whom as you mentioned above, is not reliable with the info we want?

:)
 
@Kaila, Mother Nature lies flatter than pee on a plate so no point in asking her anyway;) I did ask at the garden centers, and they told me that they "get what we get" so as much a surprise to them as to me. They know what they're getting when they unload the truck. I really want the gomphrena and will probably order them. They aren't even scheduled to ship until the end of March? What? What's up with that? If they appear at the garden centers before then, I'll probably buy more. What the heck...the garden is very, very large and has room for plenty more flowers!

In the meantime, senetti should be available in a couple of weeks. They're good for brightening up the garden while I wait for warmer temps and more things in bloom.

After I got all done with the pavers, put all my tools away, swept off the patio, laid the rug? I sat down to enjoy a glass of tea and noticed a paver that I missed:mad:. I thought bad words. To my credit, I didn't say them, not that there was anybody around to hear.
 
Georgiagranny said:
@Kaila, Mother Nature lies flatter than pee on a plate so no point in asking her anyway;) I did ask at the garden centers, and they told me that they "get what we get" so as much a surprise to them as to me. They know what they're getting when they unload the truck. I really want the gomphrena and will probably order them. They aren't even scheduled to ship until the end of March? What? What's up with that? If they appear at the garden centers before then, I'll probably buy more. What the heck...the garden is very, very large and has room for plenty more flowers!

In the meantime, senetti should be available in a couple of weeks. They're good for brightening up the garden while I wait for warmer temps and more things in bloom.

After I got all done with the pavers, put all my tools away, swept off the patio, laid the rug? I sat down to enjoy a glass of tea and noticed a paver that I missed:mad:. I thought bad words. To my credit, I didn't say them, not that there was anybody around to hear.
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With all of the bad words that I think every day, I'm grateful that I don't have a conversation bubble over my head! 😁
 
Well, I was able to finish getting my "bulb field" ready for the season. It's about 1/2 acre, and it is just what it's name says it is. I plant bulbs there and let them multiply and grow wild.

Every winter, Dio (🐐guy) burns off the field. Then I go and cut all of the old stalks that didn't burn. That is a lot of clipping & bending over....my whole body felt like it was hit by a truck! Oh, and apparently I got into a bunch of pollen....my sinuses were killing me. But you know what? It was all worth it....I have 100's of little bulbs poking their noses up out of the ground!!!!!! 😁 Lycoris, daffodils, hyacinths, crocus', etc! 🌷🌸🌼🌺🌹 Yea!!!

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@Trila I wish hollyhocks would grow here. Nope. It's way too hot🔥

The forget-me-nots still haven't been planted. The ixia bulbs are waiting patiently for maybe another week.

And...there are daffodils in bloom all over my garden in places where they've never been before and where I know I didn't plant them. Critters must have been busy during the fall and winter because I can't think of any other way there'd be daffodils in those spots.

I'm off today (don't get me started on my so-called fixed schedule) and wanted to play in the dirt, but the heavens have opened up. The rain is supposed to be gone in another hour or two; after that the ground will still be far too wet to play in the dirt. It would be playing in the mud. Um. No.

When the sun's out tomorrow with high temp pushing 80? I have to work. Drat.

Yeah...well...I keyed all that in yesterday and forgot to click on "Post reply". So now it's Thursday and still much too wet to play in the dirt. It took all day yesterday for the rain water to soak in.
 
Georgiagranny said:
@Trila I wish hollyhocks would grow here. Nope. It's way too hot🔥

The forget-me-nots still haven't been planted. The ixia bulbs are waiting patiently for maybe another week.

And...there are daffodils in bloom all over my garden in places where they've never been before and where I know I didn't plant them. Critters must have been busy during the fall and winter because I can't think of any other way there'd be daffodils in those spots.

I'm off today (don't get me started on my so-called fixed schedule) and wanted to play in the dirt, but the heavens have opened up. The rain is supposed to be gone in another hour or two; after that the ground will still be far too wet to play in the dirt. It would be playing in the mud. Um. No.

When the sun's out tomorrow with high temp pushing 80? I have to work. Drat.

Yeah...well...I keyed all that in yesterday and forgot to click on "Post reply". So now it's Thursday and still much too wet to play in the dirt. It took all day yesterday for the rain water to soak in.
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Rain? Good for you! We have sleet balls coming down most of the day. Even though the precipitation has stopped, everything is encrusted in about 1/2 inches of ice...no playing in the dirt for me!!!! I had so many bulbs coming up....I have a feeling that this year I won't have as many flowers as past springs. 😢

And FYI: so far, I have never been able to grow hollyhocks. I fell in love with them when I was a kid, my grandma had them. Every once in a while I give them another try, so....wish me (them?) luck!
 
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