[gardeners] Stuff I thought about this morning...
Harry Boswell (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:19:44 -0600
Took a short walk around the yard before going to work this morning. The tulips
are coming up, and the first few blooms should be out in a few days. You don't
see many tulips in central Mississippi, I guess because they don't come back
reliably (translation - in 10 years of planting tulips, I've had maybe 10 repeat
bloomers). I just accept them as annuals and replant every year, and I buy the
cheap bags at Home Depot or Walmart and put them in the 'frig for 6-8 weeks
every year, because I do love tulips. And often my neighbors will bring their
children
to my yard for Easter pictures in front of my tulips.
The blueberries are in full bloom. If we get a late freeze, like we did two
years ago,
there won't be any blueberries. Gotta get those sheets ready just in case.
Noticed
that one of my Russian sage plants that I got last year seems to be dead. The
other
one is green - should I dig up the brown one, or give it a while?
Interesting the things you learn when you're cooped up in a car with people for
2 days. Janet and Kristen both love snapdragons - I never knew that. I guess
I'd
better find some and plant them soon - IIRC, they're a cool-season flower.
Azaleas are beginning to bloom, spring phlox is about to crank up, and this year
I'm going to move the blue-eyed grass before Kristen picks all the flowers!
Enough for now...
Harry