Under a foot of snow!

I didn't really plant anything but I did mash up the rotted jack-o-lanterns and mixed them in with the dirt. Exciting, huh?

I can't contain myself hardly.

Glad I could brighten your day? Big date with the blond bombshell tonight? What does she do?

She's out of work right now. Used to work in the health food industry and in political lobbying. She was in management. Not tonight. Someone else.

Woo Woo! You go Paul! Hope you two have fun... where are you going? Do the women ever plan these dates, seems like lots of pressure on you usually.

Going for a quiet evening in the country. The planning is split up usually.

And tonight? Big plans?

I have three different invitations to go out. Diplomacy time.

Did you spread out the invites over all three days, or choose the best offer?

I spread 'em out.

Woo Woo!

No, woo woo woo.

Uh oh! Overdose!

Things are still going great.

things are still covered in snow!

Wish I could come up and help ya defrost a couple...

o melons?!?!

Sure, why not? There's enough to share, right?

I tilled the garden yesterday to 'prepare the soil' but it will be a good long time before I get to plant outside. Still snow on the horizon even though the weekend was sunny and in the 50s. All my daisies have sprouted inside and I' going to seed the tomatoes on Sunday. Carrots and pumpkins later in the month of March. I'm really excited about the prospect of living things again. My lillies started poking their heads through on Wednesday and I hope they survive the snow forcast for the rest of the week. My pansies have been blooming all winter during spurts of sunshiny warmth. Gardening is so theraputic for the mind and body (shoveling can be a real workout!) I am so looking forward even to weeding!

I know the feeling, Stacey. I love my plants. The pansies and snapdragons have been blooming all winter (of course not really a winter at all here). My roses have new growth coming out (even though I gave 'em a hard pruning). The daffodils are blooming, the tulips are getting ready to and the irises have been threatening to grow all summer and winter but nothing more than stubs as yet.

A place with no winter, just like here!

think we'll get a late frost, though....

El Nino was supposed to dump 8 - 10 inches on Denver according to Monday nights forecast. On Tuesday they changed the amount to 3 - 5 inches and today it was ammended again to trace flurries in late afternoon. Well... at 4:05pm it's sunny and in the high 40s! I love it when weather people are wrong in my favor!

know whatcha mean, we were supposed to get storms this afternoon and nutin' happened!

nutin', honey?

nutin', *giggle*

k

was given a bag of vermiculite for my garden... so excited!!!

*giggle* (better watch out, wer might show up with a couple of barrels)

LOL! *still giggling* I am visualizing now!

What Stacey in an ocean of wet vermiculite?

oooooh!

LOL!

Like that image, wolf?

Don't mind me, I'm just going to sit here and watch for awhile...

sure you don't wanna get a little dirty too?

Like the pictures?

*smile*

So, you got frogs in your garden, also?

nope. but i want some.

today, i picked up a grandiflora rose, queen elizabeth, think she's gonna be big! and planted a few more tulips!

my lilies are a getting ready to bloom!?!?!? It's like they don't realize it was 6 degrees last week!

It looks like your keeping your bulbs warm, though!

i'll share the details later... *smile* Planted cosmos, columbine, baby's breath, violas, and other assorted flowering plants on Saturday. Colorado has been very warm (high 50s and low 60s) so I couldn't help myself. I might lose a few if we get that 'Big One' everyone is going on about. Personally I think the October blizzard and its accompaning 24 inches of snow was plenty to constitute a full winter!

Despite the alternating warm/snowy days and my premature planting, the garden is looking good. In bloom: Tulips, day lilies, pansies, dandilions Sprouting: sunflowers, tiger lilies, columbine, violas, baby's breath Spreading: Morning glories, crab grass

all my roses are doing great save HT Blue Moon. She was so beautiful the last two years but gave out over the winter. Poor thing. Couldn't find another, so planted a hybrid musk instead. Lots of blooms on that one, so we'll see. The tulips and daffodils are done, irises are still growing, no blooms yet.

Hey, Stacey, would those morning glories be Heavenly Blues or Wedding Bells? If they are, save me some seeds, will ya?

saving you all kinds of things..

Is that so?

maybe

but more probably not. Which is okay, as it keeps you from being as disappointed. *smile*

the roses are bloomin' like mad! the garden smells wonderful, woohoo!!

The wildflowers are still in profusion in my yard.

My 'planted way too early' flowers are coming up nicely. Sunflowers grow FAST! Most is coming in as ground cover right now before it blooms but the tulips (red and orange), daffodils, pansies (purple, yellow, magenta and white), irises (deep purple) and morning glory are adding plenty of color!

my tulips and dafs are done, pansies still going, irises still in progress.

WHAT garden????? My entire lawn is covered in leaves!!! HUGE HUGE sycamore leaves oh, and snow now!

Can't find your garden for the snow?

more for the leaves! HUGE (bigger than your face kinda leaves!)

our one tomato plant has waited until now to produce! so we put a plastic compost bin around it with a plastic tarp over the top. i don't know how it'll do, but we'll see! my roses have kicked in and my iris has produced yet another set of leaves. more bulbs are in the vegee bin in my fridge. i'll plant them later this month or early dec. (more tulips and irises). oh, and i'm growing my first amaryllis and she'll bloom any day now. think i'll put her outside too so she can propogate!

the crocuses are crocusing out o the ground... it's been so warm and sunny, they think it's Spring already (and I'm not telling them any different!) The mums and violas and trees have started their Spring-like buddings... I hope we don't get a hard freeze while I'm away... .ok

Bluebonnets are going like gang busters here.

awwww... Paul you're KILLING me!

"killing me softly with his posts, killing me softly..."

with his posts...

the irises are still growing leaves (funny, cuz they never get very far then they die off and start again). my vegee bin bulbs were planted in feb (early) and are already bringing tulips, mini irises, irises, and daffodils. the first batch of daffs from a couple of years ago only gave me one flower. guess, it's not done yet. the roses all have blooms ready to burst at any second. i didn't cut them back in feb. instead, trimmed them lightly in nov/dec, then let them go. i planted hostas under my backyard elm tree, and the vegee garden is in the middle of being tilled. we'll see if we actually grow anything in it this year. (oh, and the hardy tomato plant gave up a long time ago)

OK I'll be gentle, Stacey.

(hehe...it's usually Stacey promising to be gentle...)

he he yerself!! *grin*

she says as she posts number 69...

hee hee!

okay... so they're not in my garden, but they're on my desk... lots and lots and lots of daisies! from the sweetest boy!

congrats!

ok. i've got a fuschia. just one, mind you, and i plan to put it out front (where there's more shade) and see how she does. gonna keep her in a pot because i'm not sure how much cold it can stand should i plant it. anyone know?

not me...give me a couple of days and I can find out...

well, i found some fuschia societies but they're mostly for showing plants and stuff. i haven't been able to find out anymore about planting outside (except for folks in parts of california). the tag says it can stand temps as low as 32 but doesn't mention anything about planting outside. also want to pick up a couple of bleeding hearts for the shade. those i know can stand it outside.

you're gonna plant some Democrats in your yard?

haha

Oh, I'm so happy now spring is coming. I feel it in my ole bones, and see it in the garden. These li'l blue-whiite flowers that bloom now for a few weeks, after the Schneegl�ckchen went, and before the Osterglocken come. In the mornings, the birds sing happily, aware that the cats are just off night-shift. Everything in my county turns green, the fields turn from brown to green, and I now, in summer there will be a sea of gold (not as big as in the Midwest, etc., but this was good enough for the Celts, the Romans and whoever passed by, and it shall be good enough for my, until I pass by, too.), with green spots from sugarbeets and colorful patches where the roses grow. The trees get leafes again, and don't stand around naked anymore like they did all winter long. And not too far away, just around Easter or two weeks later, cherry trees will bloom, changing hills from brown and green hues to the purest white. And as I will stand beneath them, and inhale the sweet smell, my gaze will wander across the stretch of land before me, and I will love what I see, for what I will see is good.

As I've mentioned before (always in the wrong conference)... my tulips, hyscinths and violas are blooming! The Peones are growing and the snapdragons and the sweetpeas and the mums... no blooming on them for awhile though. All the trees are budding and the grass is slowly turning green again! And everything smells so good!!!

peonies don't do well in our area for some reason. when i lived in kansas, my mother had several along the front of the house. they were so lovely when they bloomed! the tulips and hyacinth's have since bloomed, the pansies are still going strong and the roses are just going to town. i planted some hostas in front and back and they're doing pretty good too. the salvia is coming back and the hydrangeas are putting forth new leaves. oh, and the fushcia actually has buds, now if they open is another matter entirely!

hydrangeas!!! In your yard!!! Those plants HATE it here... WAY to dry!

she lives on/in a bayou...

that's why cacti don't like living there... (methinks that ring made you all sillyheaded!)

I got the logic... I was just envious!!! (and yes, it kinda has... all that sparkle ya know!)

who got a ring? what? you guys lost me there. yeah, bog type plants like it here. plus the hydrangeas are sitting right under the eaves so they get a good soaking.

wolfie, wolfie, wolfie... While we were in Europe, Brandon proposed... the ring is a big shiny engagement ring! /

=O woohoo!!!!!! congratulations girlfriend!!

Ah, to see the joy of youth! And to have a cherry tree outside my window that just starts to explode in blossoms!

*turning green*

like kelly green? or jade? or flourescent??? (sorry, I'm telnetting)

btw: i love the background in here!

I was starting to wonder... have you checked the one in poetry lately?

no, not yet. will go there next.

and to you, Stace...whichever green you prefer...

the poetry background looks pretty cool, wer!

good I'm glad

but what I really want to know is, is it summoning the muse back?

i have no idea where she went....

who?