It feels like winter is here to stay. The weather has been harsh, with the temperature dipping below freezing several times, along with a few snowfalls, interspersed with rain and wind.
1. I stood inside a warm house to take this picture through the window of a flock of mourning doves and a junco flattened against the south facing slope in the backyard to escape the worst of the wind.
2. Spring bulbs are making themselves known. Most, like this allium, are polite and well mannered.
3. Not daffodils. Daffodils multiply like rabbits. Last summer I dug up huge clumps of daffodil bulbs and gave away 4 boxes of them to anyone who would take them.
I missed a few clumps.
4. I am so ready for spring. I bought a packet of the cherry tomato, ‘Tiny Tim.’ I had planned to get the other tomato I always get from my favorite garden store when the new 2021 seeds arrived. Then I was inspired by the wonderful tomatoes on Lisa’s Garden Adventures. It was time to break out of my tomato rut.
I found Sow True Seed’s headquarters right here in Asheville. They have a huge variety of tomatoes. I’d never heard of most of them. I bought ‘German Chocolate’ and ‘Garden Peach.’ This is gonna be a fun tomato year.
5. Instead of tossing out a hodge-podge of wildflower seeds like I did last year, I hope to cover most of the slope in the backyard with Black-Eyed Susans and Purple Coneflower. Both are natives.
6. Sunflower seeds. An impulse buy. I have absolutely no idea where I will plant this.
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Nothing like some pretty seed packets to lift the spirits when in winter’s grip. Lucky you with some many Daffs!
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I grew Autumn Beauty last year. They were true to their name – beautiful in September. Hope yours are splendid.
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Seeds are so inspiring! Did the wildflower seeds you tossed out last year take? I tossed some out last fall, and have been crossing my fingers.
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I did get a few blooms. I tossed out a lot of seed packets, but the result was sparse.
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Without much chill, daffodils do not multiply so much here. Nor to they wait so late to bloom. They are still blooming now, and are doing well this year; but last year, they got smacked around by the rainy winter weather.
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Nothing eats them so here they just multiply and multiply multiply until they’re a basketball sized, packed jumble of bulbs.
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They ‘can’ do that here, but only in ideal situations, and only very slowly. My first daffodils were an abandoned cut flower crop in Montara. After digging and relocating many big clumps of bulbs, I realized that they were arranged in rows. The colonies were huge, but had been abandoned for decades.
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My entire yard must be an ideal situation. I wish I had the same problem with tulips.
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Ah, yes; tulips! It is frustrating to see them do well in other gardens.
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Good luck with the sunflowers! Hope to see them in bloom when you have summer.
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