First Flat of Flowers
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- May
- 5
I’ve been so busy with work stuff that I haven’t had time to post much from my own garden.
And in my own garden, I’ve been so busy with cleaning up, moving things around and digging up and dividing a few tired perennials that I haven’t had time to go out and buy new stuff to plant.
I finally stopped at the local farmstand a couple of weeks ago to at least get a flat of pansies. That’s always one of my first OK-it’s-really-spring moments.
I used to get the full pansy rainbow of colors, but now I pretty much stick to the blue and white ones, with an occasional purple.
Aren’t these big-headed blue violas great? I first noticed them last spring at Matterhorn Nursery in Pomona.
I’m also trying to reign in my overly exuberant plant shopping habits this year and not buy so much stuff. (Isn’t everyone economizing these days?)
Here’s a post from last spring about my plantaholic tendencies…
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
