30 Days Until Spring!
I love spring! It’s my favorite time of the year. I love it when everything starts growing and turning green. I know some would say I’m wishing my life away, but I wish for spring from January first until March.
I’m usually good through December, I think it’s all the holiday bustle. I love the
Christmas season, so I’d never want to skip that. I usually get a big poinsettia, and we have the Christmas tree to give me my green fix.
After Christmas I go into hibernation for the next couple months. Most of the year I love to be outside, but when it gets below 20` it seems I can never get warm. I also think I get a little of the winter blues, (or maybe it’s lack of gardening blues).
I start getting seed catalogs in the mail, curl up in a ball with a cup of coffee, browsing all the great new plant possibilities, and dream about my garden.
But it’s almost Spring! I’m ready for the daffodils, and tulips to start peeking through. I’m counting the days.
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7 opinions for 30 Days Until Spring!
Kylee
Feb 20, 2008 at 12:09 pm
You sound so much like me! (Except for the coffee thing. Make mine a Pepsi One.)
Counting the days with you!
Anna
Feb 20, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I was drawn to the blooms of the cherry tree! I want to see Spring too. The Yoshino Cherry is my favorite. It keeps on keeping on through drought and all. Every gardener I know is curled up right now with catalogs, flower books, and dreams of new frog shoes in their hearts.
Peggy
Feb 20, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I love spring too, but I’m going to have to follow your spring gardening escapades. I don’t have a garden right now.
However, I do plan on more balcony plants since I attracted hummingbirds last year.
Linette
Feb 20, 2008 at 10:59 pm
That’s one of my favorite parts of gardening, attracting birds and butterflies (and other winged and feathered creatures) to my garden.
I enjoy gardening in containers even though I have my regular garden(s). I think containers take less work once they’re set up, and they can be just as beautiful:)
Cindy
Feb 24, 2008 at 1:15 am
Yikes, I’m running out of time. I want to plan so much: a veggie garden, front flower bed/sitting garden and herb garden. I need coffee (yeah, right), the catalogs, paper and quiet (with 3 & 2 year old jumping in the background)! It will come, yes it will. I’m dreaming.
valletta
Feb 24, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I’m in Zone 9 (or Sunset 15-16) so our winters are relatively warm and wet so you really can garden all year long. But as a California native I really do see the seasons here even if transplants don’t :)
We are moving next month to the wine country on the central coast and I cannot wait to have a huge vegetable garden AND a cutting garden!
I’ve already over-ordered from the seed catalogs and came up with a DIY seed starting station. I’ve got it bad!:)
FYI: buddleai (butterfly bush) is amazingly easy to grow form seed. They are hardwood bushy perennials that attract butterflies and you would not believe the seeds. They are more like wisps of feather. Very interesting. Try planting some. I especially like Black Knight.
linette
Mar 8, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Valletta- I love butterfly bush, it dies back to the ground each year, but comes back every spring.
Cindy- I’m with you on running out of time. There’s alway so much I’d like to do, and so little time to do it.
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