Some more of the obsessiveness Sherri thinks is cute, i.e. a list of where everything in my garden is right now.
Daffodils: Most are at half-height, some have reached full height and three have bloomed.
White grape hyacinths: Sprouted and budding.
Crocuses: Done blooming.
Purple grape hyacinths: Sprouted.
Lilacs: All have baby leaves.
White pussy willow: Catkins. Yay!
Pink pussy willow: Teeny-tiny leaf buds.
Mock orange: Too early to tell, I hope.
Clematis: New growth on all of them.
Lamium: Teeny leaves, but hopefully in good shape now that I've removed the cover of dead leaves.
Chives: Sprouted, growing vigorously.
Tulips: No sign of them, probably eaten by deer or bunnies.
Dusty Miller: Signs of new growth on about half, this is a victory because these are annuals from last year.
Irises: Apparently didn't make it. :(
Bluebells: Sprouted, some budding.
Hyacinths: Two sprouted & budding, one didn't make it.
Blue columbines: Two sprouted, one didn't make it.
Sweet woodruff: No sign of it, hopefully just because it's early.
Hibiscus & hydrangeas: Hopefully it's just too early for them to be awake.
Campanula: Appears to be growing, but is also a magnet for deer & bunnies, so who knows?
Weeds: Too damn many already.
Butterfly bushes: One didn't make it, the other five are doing well.
Viburnum: Doesn't look alive, but again, might be the earliness.
I'll revisit this list in a month and see how everything is doing. I am trying not to get my hopes up with some of the plants, as we did have a couple of truly vicious spells last winter. I've definitely lost my little Korean lilac. :(
On the other hand, I will be able to fill my house with daffodils soon!
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Please, please drive east and get these mammoth Korean lilacs out of my back yard! I don't like them, never have (didn't plant them) and they insist on living.
Come get them. We can have a Becs fest and you can go home with your car bristling with lilacs.
Good to hear your garden is doing so well, Jammies. :)
Go get the lilacs! I'd get them for you, but that's a long swing east on the way to Jammiesfest.
Or Becs can come to Jammiesfest ]:D
I'm trying not to look outside, since most things are not coming with me. My rosemary hedge is beautiful, the roses (including the delicious Don Juan) are blooming madly, and I wish wish wish roses would root so I could at least try with them again, but most of these are Nelson roses and are bred for Florida.
I suspect I'll just have to comb the Jackson Perkins catalog...at least I'll be in a new zone!
Sherri, I hated Zone 9 gardening. I never got the hang of it. By the time I was ready to put the tomatoes in the ground, it was already wayyy too late. Zone 6 - everything I love grows here.
Becs, if gas prices weren't so high, I would. I have a friend in North Brunswick and I'd visit you both.
And very welcome you'd be. How about the train? We can disguise the lilacs as...I dunno, mannequins? Trees?
N. Brunswick is v close to Ma Maisonette.
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