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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\nIn anticipation of spring, I\u2019m starting more seeds. Last week I planted petunias, nicotiana, and verbena seeds. They are being pokey about sprouting but the petunias are up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another fun seed that has sprouted is a hoya seed I\u2019m growing for the On the Ledge Sow Along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There might be another seedling or two coming along in this pot\u2013it would be fun to have a couple of different kinds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other seeds that will get started this weekend are vegetable seeds that need a long headstart to succeed in our short summers. I\u2019ve committed to providing seedlings to a couple of friends, both flowers and veggies. That adds a level of pressure but it also excites me to know that I\u2019m getting some younger people excited about plants. I\u2019ll sneak some native seedlings in there, too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today was a perfect day for getting some garden cleanup done and some grafting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is the cleaned-up memory garden. It doesn\u2019t look like much right now. It will transform into something completely different in a month and for about six months after that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Clean-up involved cutting back some dead stems and pulling a few weeds. I just left the stems where I found them in case they house any insects. They will get covered by the bursting vegetation and break down into the soil by the end of summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I found some nice clumps of crocus blooming today and couldn\u2019t resist some photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is a tight race between crocus and iris when it comes to the flowers I most photograph in the spring. Below are some more of the forced dwarf iris that came into glorious bloom this week. This dwarf iris bulb mix was very different from other mixes in that it didn\u2019t have any yellows but had the very light blue\/whitish flowers, instead. Stunning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The last thing I did outside was to graft a few cherry branches onto the seedling cherry in the driveway bed. I grafted one branch from a sweet cherry on there and one from the pie cherry. There are already two grafts on that seedling. It keeps throwing up sucker-ish branches so I just keep wanting to graft. I\u2019m not super confident in the timing or my expertise this year but it was worth a try. <\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I went to water some orchids in the greenhouse today but the water barrel had so much ice, I couldn\u2019t get at the water! We started the week with a dusting of snow and ended on some warm-ish, sunny days. But the ice and snow are sticking around just to remind us that it is … Continue reading From Snow to Spring in Just a Few Days<\/span> <\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n