Signs of Spring
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- February
- 20
I was at the NY Botanical Garden yesterday for the American Gardening Series Lectures on beneficial insects and container gardening and wandered over to the perennial beds to look for any signs of life.
Snowdrops!
And daffodils beginning to emerge:
I’ve also begun to bring up pots of forced bulbs from the basement — they went down for a “cooling-off” period in mid-November. My basement is unheated, with a few old dirt-floor rooms that bulbs seem to like. Here’s a link to my “How to Force Bulbs” post from last fall, with more photos.
I just wrap them in plastic shopping bags and put them in the dark.
As you can see, these Spanish bluebells are up and growing (this was a couple of weeks ago):
Tulips:
Daffodils:
And how the pots look today:
Nice and green and healthy looking. But I was hoping for flowers by now — let’s give them another week.
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on Friday, February 20th, 2009 at 4:52 pm by Bill Cary.
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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.
