May 25, 2005
More Gratuitous Garden Posting (TM)
We could get a wave going here - Jordana is at it and she's got the gen-u-ine pics, too, not stand-ins lifted off of Google like me.
Interestingly, Jordana lives in Nashville, but her garden appears to be a week or two ahead of mine here in Northern Virginia, given that her hydrangia, daisies and coneflower are already blooming and mine haven't started. For some reason, I'd have thought the Cumberland Valley would be at about the same stage as my neck of the woods, or else maybe even slightly behind. Evidently, I was mistaken about this.
On the other hand, my own garden has a northern exposure and I've noticed that it seems to lag behind some of the other ones in my area as well. I've got a young hedge of oak-leaf hydrangia coming up on its northern side and it will be interesting to see if this changes the timetable once it has filled in and provides an effective screen.
Posted by Robert at May 25, 2005 11:34 AMMy garden is at least two weeks behind you, and will never catch up with a garden in Nashville.
I'm not sure if I can stand to read another garden post because your garden sounds so much better than mine (and we work on ours like dogs). Staking columbine, indeed! At least mine stand up by themselves, okay, they aren't 4 feet tall...
Anyone in Suffolk County NY want some heirloom tomato plants? It just so happens that I have 65 plants looking for good homes...Grew em from seeds from some hippie gardening place in middle america.
Babs - I know what you mean. It's been an awfully cold spring up there (no doubt due to Global Warming or something). I trade notes with the 'rents up in Maine and from what I can gather, they still need sled dogs to get to the grocery store.
Posted by: Robert the LB at May 25, 2005 03:28 PM
