Today…

I planted three eryngiym planum pots and two pansies. Keep your fingers crossed.

Hmm…

I should have made an order earlier but I haven’t and now I’m sitting here wondering if I should remove some of the stuff, add just a few more or if I’m done. Whenever I feel, “Okay, done” it’s like standing in line by the register surrounded by candy and having an empty stomach!

I’ve found a few cuties that I want but it’s already pretty full in all my flowerbeds, not sure I’ll find space for it all. Some of the poppies look pretty dull and one is dull looking and pricey, but I want ALL poppies and I know I’ll love him when he’s here so what to do!?

I’ve never had Zinnias and they seem cute and easy (knock on wood) so I think I just have to have a few of those.

Zinnia, pic found here

Zinnia, pic found here

Update: I managed to remove one papaver rhoeas but it was hard. There was this really cute mixed called, “Angel’s choir mix” but I guess I can live without… I didn’t get any peony poppies either.

Wolfs Bane

Planted two pots of Wolf’s Bane (aconitum napellus) on January 13. Let’s see if they feel like growing, keep your fingers crossed.

Check the dahlias in storage

Most of them (knock on wood) looked just fine but one thing is sure, the bigger they are the easier they are to store. Some of the smallest one, the ones I sewed last season, I doubt they will make it through the winter. This was the first time I check on them.

Arabian Night: 4 (all very nice)
Fantasia: 1 (very questionable due to size)
Unknown: 7 (five questionable)
Children of Oxford: (1 fine, 1 okay, 5 small and will most likely not make it)
Tomas A Edison: 2 (both looking nice)
Le Baron: 1(Nice)
My Love: 1 (ok) (There might be two, I put the one I think is a “My Love” in the same box and it looked nice too)
Lucky number seven: 1 (Nice)

I’m also trying to storage a small pot with tall verbena, looking questionable, gave them a little spray of water…

PLANS FOR SPRING

· Remove The Devil (aka Snowberry bush)
· Make a flowerbed against the Tuja hedge (which isn’t ideal but… where else can I have a flowerbed? Need to think about that one)
· Fix the raspberries from spreading too much
· Tidy up the gooseberry
· Building bathouses
· Building birdhouses, especially one for owls so please keep your fingers crossed.
· Build a compost
· Sow rhubarb
·Build a bird bath

Wee!! Soon it’s sowtime!

I have to get organize (ha, what a joke!) and see what I need, not buy too much since I don’t have that much room. I want spring and I want it now!! I really do need to sit down and draw a plan on how to make room for all the plants, even if half of all the seeds I have will grow it’s going to be tough.

(I had been stupid and put my poppy seeds in a plastic container, bad idea… mold. Thank god I have more than I can sow.)

First one out to be sown is my Wolfs Bane. Supposed to be soon in January. If he doesn’t grow I will buy a plant! (I have no idea where to plant it…)

I should have put gift certificate at the seed companies on my wishlist, stupid me…

Project

The Backyard is a horrible mess due to no planning what so ever and the horrible evil Snowberry bush (sound so cute but it’s really not). I found this adorable green tunnel, it’s in The Poison Garden at Alnwick Gardens (so want to go there) but I don’t have space or use for a tunnel but then it hit me. Why not make a little house/hut of it? A round little secret place just for me covered with ivy? I was thinking of having it in the Backyard and I hope that I’ll get some help in the spring to get rid of the Snowberry, build a compost box (well, actually three, or at least two), replant the raspberries and the gooseberries, make some space for my rhubarb and basically tidy the place up.

If this hut/house thing happens, it will be called, Kojan.

Picture found here.

Picture found here.