Hi everyone, I haven’t written anything for this site for a long time, but now that my move is over with and my internet connection is working I thought I would share with you some of my new flower plantings, and invite you to add your own.
My dog lady outside my new place near the path through the trees!
Following are pictures of flowers I have planted in the last few weeks, just getting started but looking good. Digital camera is uploading, but I have to work on my picture taking a little.
So aside from the pictures, how is everyone doing!!!!
Any gardening????
A picture of the tree grove.
So where have you moved to? It’s reminiscent of the bay area. Here it doesn’t know whether it wants to be winter or spring. I think it’s just playing games with my orchard, setting a trap for the new buds, then Wham!
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Appreciate your gardening diary, I’m glad the seasons are turning and a lot of work needs to be done.
I recently applied for a position as gardener, which must truly surprise you!
All tulip bulbs have been planted of course before December, but for vegetables the seeding starts in the coming weeks.
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Hi Oui, good to see/read you again, I’ve missed you.
I am now sitting here with a big plate of pork and sauerkraut with egg dumplings, thinking about over yonder in the other side of the world, where my ancestors came from and brought this delictable dish.
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Consider sauerkraut with white raisins as one of my favorite winter dishes, although light on any pork.
Riesling wineBest place to buy in The Netherlands is at the local butcher’s shop!
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Thanks for the link, I understood every word…ha ha…
Raisens and sauerkraut, that’s the first I ever heard of that, could be good, I may try it.
Hey Oui..you always have the ‘bestest’ links…and raisins sound good with sauerkraut…will have to remember to try that.
I see we’re on the same track again Diane…just had cooked some pork chops and damn forgot to buy sauerkraut so had to do without and instead make some pot roast type potatoes.
And my sister and I are still trying to get together to spend the day making potato dumplings…this just made me extra hungry for them again.
Those pics brings on my gardening addiction. Avid gardeners are addicted and there’s no therapy yet invented. If there is a cure, I don’t wanna know.
in northern Vermont, at the 45th, we’re still waiting for winter. We’ve had one real snowfall, now melted Raining since end of December with temps in mid 40s and 50sF. Maple sugaring season is 6 weeks early. Several days we’ve turned the heat off. btw, that’s not a complaint but this is not normal.
This afternoon we raked leaves, that’s a spring chore in february.
soon time to start veggies. Some annuals, geraniums, lobelia already seeded indoor.
Hi idcredit….yes gardners get addicted that’s for sure…right now it’s flowers for me, but soon I will try some vegs. again, did not have too much luck last year.
Maple sugaring, brings back memories to me of youth in Southwestern Pa. another maple sugar area, with our yearly Maple Festivals (Somerset County), I was in one at 8 or so,(queens’s court ro flower girl, I forget) got to wear a pretty dress and be in the parade.
I did acquite a geranium this week and hope to get more, plus I was some begonia’s, mine have all bit the dust.
Quite a temp. change for you folks in Vermont, eh…does that mean a bad storm could be in your future??
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too much, it fits the struggle.
Two summers ago, the racoons did that to our corn. I think they heard us planning, a “we’ll pick tomorrow.” They got the jump on us. Literally. Our garden had an 8ft deer fence sans voltage.
When the animals visit, we’re reminded by Henry Beard’s & Roy McKie’s ‘Gardening dictionary for weedpullers, slugrushers and backyard botanists.’
“gar-den-ing 1. n. the art of killing weeds and bugs to grow flowers and crops for animals and birds to eat.”
it’s a fun struggle.
Thanks for the kind words.
don’t feel bad. A lot of gardens failed last summer. Spring and summer did a switch -it got too hot too early.
A snowfall in our future? More like winter kill, without the winter and snow cover many perennials and shrubs will heave. Our irises are perking up. This is a disaster that foretells warming and climate change is for real.
Shhhh, don’t mention a word to the guy in the oval office. He’s been telling NASA scientists to STFU.
Seems I owed some of my gardening failures to critters, unseen but viscious, grabbed every tomato just as it reached it’s peak, and no it was not a human and did not leave even a seed.
Hey neighbor! Where in northern VT? I’m in west central NH. Very bizarro winter in these woods, if you could call it ‘winter’ even…
BTW, I love lobelia, my favorite annual of all time! 🙂
Hi Diane..thanks for the update on your new digs and all the great garden pictures. Makes me want to get out and start planting or repotting the few outdoor pots I have outside my apartment door. The weather certainly is right for it..almost in the 70’s here..as everyone is saying untypical for Feb…even for Central CA.
Hi Chocolate, weather is perfect for gardening here right now, a little too cool at night for me, but will soon warm up. You know I can’t think of anything much anymore that makes me as happy as flowers and plants do,,,,I am back to the walking outside to check on my flowers every half hour or so and looking forward to building a great new collection of plants.
How are you doing my friend, holding back on the coffee, I bet….ha ha…
Say, what would be the nearest train station to your house…..
I imagine it’s kinda fun looking forward to new plants …as for the coffee..yah haha..especially now that I’m working on eating less(or better would be more accurate) I’m probably drinking more coffee.
Plants and flowers really are such a joy and so peaceful and soothing I think to just lose yourself in while puttering around and working on plants or doing whatever it is gardeners manage to do ..I know I think it’s saved my sanity more than once. Almost like having a pet..to worry and fuss over without having to let them out at night to do their thing.
As for train..that would have to be Bakersfield..if you do happen to pull this off I am hoping that my sister and I can meet you in Bakersfield..it’s only a 25 minute jaunt from Taft to B-town.
Perfect timing for a weird semi-snowy currently wet dirty looking New England winter. I missed gardening this summer, as I was moving and divorcing and all such related things. I don’t really know if I’ll get to do it this year either, as I don’t know where I’ll be. I do enjoy my houseplants though, and every now and again treat myself to some flowering color for the mantle. I loves my flowers… Especially the blue and purple ones. 🙂
What a cute lil doggie Lady you have there!
I love purple flowers too and have a bunch of them, violas among them, I am very attracted to those colors, and my lantana is purple. I had too very large and beautiful lantanna, that bit the dust during my move, one is kind of coming back, so I was happy to purchase two more plants. I just love them when they spread all over and climb up anything.
Moving is rough, but moving and divorcing is even harder which I think I may have done a time or two myself.
Sorry about all you folks still living in the colder climes, feel kinda quilty about my secret pleasure. am hoping some of you will get to see my new place and gardens when you come for the meetup.
Cool shirts Shirl has designed, eh.
but good to see you posting, diane. I was just mentioning the other day that when you were all settled in and stuff that we need to entice you and shirl back to do a welcome diary or two. You guys have the magic touch. So… um.. cough… ahem!
Consider yourself enticed ;).
Nanette, thanks, I’ve had sort of a writers block and just couldn’t seem to find any words to say about anything, but hopefully I am out of that now.
Thanks for the enticing, I am and I will try to write more and participate more.
Welcome back Diane. I missed the DKosSaturday morning diary, being too busy looking out the window at the storm from the southeast. So, I’m glad you posted a Booman Garden diary.
Recently, I bought a $20.00 baffle to keep squirrels from eating the birds’ suet. Looks like I should get my money back.
A little out-of-focus because Mr. White Ears (this squirrel has white ears) was swaying. I got rid of him by throwing him a pecan in the shell. This went on for days -after his badness, I would throw him a nut and he would rush away with the treat in his mouth. Now, I’ve learned that squirrels do not really like suet, it’s the stuff mixed into it, like corn, peanut etc that attracts them. So I’m about to get just plain suet, surprise surprise. Grey Squirrels are invasive species who have just about decimated our native red squirrels so I don’t want to encourage them.
Hi Sybil, thanks for the nice words….I had my own problem with squirrels last year, they were so insistant on getting anything that ripened in my garden last year…so hoping they do not travel across the street to my new place and plague me there. I think mine were grey squirrels too.
Lovely photos and good to hear from you again, Diane!
Great diary Diane! Glad to see you’ve got early color going out your way… and with such an adorable pup to keep watch on things! Here in IA we’ve had an odd winter — which apparently has just arrived in force. Bitter cold and snow in early December, then the 2nd warmest January on record… then come February, wham, back to the deep freeze, although all brown out. But with some of our earliest bulbs (Snowdrops) starting to come up, I’m actually glad it’s cold again to discourage the 800+ other odd bulbs from getting too enthusiastic just yet.
I will be posting gardening diaries as spring arrives, and as soon as I get the hang of the html needed to insert photos (and find hosting of course), since I’m so new (at posting)here. If all goes well, we will have an eye-popping display of about 300 tulips, 200 daffodils, crocus, hyacinths, etc. come spring. I will be excited to share them with fellow addicted gardeners. If you’d like to see what our gardens look like in summer, check out my gardening website (link in user profile), even though it’s almost 2 yrs out of date and so much more has been added. I’m a huge fan of purple myself, and can’t resist adding more and more. You should try your hand at delphiniums, I think they’d do well in your climate given you don’t have terribly hot summers. I lose a few each year due to July/August heat, but I just keep replacing them, because I love them so much.
Thanks again for sharing your luck for having mid-winter blooms!