Perfect weather today with blue sky, plenty of sun and lots accomplished. Nice shot above of the pasque flower (
Pulsatilla vulgaris) in our English cottage garden today. I love the unfurling blooms of this early perennial and once done blooming, the seed heads are wispy and showy as well. We have some pink varieties in the alpine garden as well. It wasn't hard to run in to color today as seen with pictures from today (more hyacinths below).
Marv and Terry have been hauling out more of our larger containers and custom blending our soil mix and filling the containers in preparation for planting in the coming weeks. We blend 2/3 soil-less p
otting mix with 1/3 mushroom compost and feel this will be a nice blend for our 50+ containers out in the garden. Dr. Gredler has been out mowing and accomplishing various gardening tasks. Marianne, Janice, Bob and Kay all transplanted annual plugs (over 800) in to larger containers which was essential as these will be part of one of our new displays. I think we all respect the amount of work done in greenhouses in terms of "bumping up" these plugs in to larger containers (see to the left). With cold evenings, most of these plants need to be inside, however, on days like today, we get them out for some fresh air and sunshine. Without a hoop house or greenhouse, we do a lot of moving plants inside and out in April and May. Oh well. We know the routine. See our cart of tender plants that we drive around all day to be in part sun (so the plants don't scald as they've not seen light for a week or so in the back of a semi).
Perfect weather today with blue sky, plenty of sun and lots accomplished. Nice shot above of the pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) in our English cottage garden today. I love the unfurling blooms of this early perennial and once done blooming, the seed heads are wispy and showy as well. We have some pink varieties in the alpine garden as well. It wasn't hard to run in to color today as seen with pictures from today (more hyacinths below).
otting mix with 1/3 mushroom compost and feel this will be a nice blend for our 50+ containers out in the garden. Dr. Gredler has been out mowing and accomplishing various gardening tasks. Marianne, Janice, Bob and Kay all transplanted annual plugs (over 800) in to larger containers which was essential as these will be part of one of our new displays. I think we all respect the amount of work done in greenhouses in terms of "bumping up" these plugs in to larger containers (see to the left). With cold evenings, most of these plants need to be inside, however, on days like today, we get them out for some fresh air and sunshine. Without a hoop house or greenhouse, we do a lot of moving plants inside and out in April and May. Oh well. We know the routine. See our cart of tender plants that we drive around all day to be in part sun (so the plants don't scald as they've not seen light for a week or so in the back of a semi).
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