Jared77
Garden Addicted
Swampducks sounds like you ate like a KING!!!! My wife and I love all the wineries up on the Leelanau Penninsula. Glad to hear you got the dogs back alright. Beagles are hard headed, I haven't met a hound that wasn't and thats why I don't have hounds. They are cute and Id love to chase some rabbits with one but they are just not my type of dog.
I don't think I planted the daffodils that deep. They were all Home Dept specials so that may have something to do with it. We bought crocus and they had tulips, hyacinths, and daffodils on sale so we got some of those as well. The tulips are alright, again nothing special. If they hadn't been on sale I wouldn't have bought them. Eventually I want to get some nice tulips but right now we'll enjoy what we have. The hyacinths are hands down my favorite from that batch. All pastel colors that smell wonderful and the rabbits don't mess with them. The plan was to have crocus up, then the hyacinths, then daffodils and tulips then we're well into spring and everything else is blooming. Well we got the first 2 of those to do well.
I'm also keeping my eyes peeled for Black Magic roses. They are a hybrid tea that my wife carried down the isle when we got married. Id love to get a couple of those but then there are not many roses that I'm opposed to.
Have your soil tested it won't hurt. Ammend the soil if you have to, then give those bleeding hearts a try. They are very tolerant, and they are so pretty. We bought a couple of them to fill in around the silver maple trees there were already a few in place. Bought them after they'd bloomed at one of the big box stores (could have been Walmart or Home Depot I don't remember) and got them for next to nothing. They wanted them gone to make room for something else and were not going to sell since they'd already bloomed that season. They were in 1 gallon pots or maybe 3 gallon pots I don't remember but there was nothing wrong with them other than taht. Little fertilizer when I planted them and they came back next year looking great and bloomed like they'd been there for years. Did the same with lilies after they'd bloomed and even hostas at the end of the year those things are so tough nothing phases them. I always park at the garden section at the big box stores so I can walk through and look for a deal. Never hurts.
If I don't talk you folks Happy Easter!
I don't think I planted the daffodils that deep. They were all Home Dept specials so that may have something to do with it. We bought crocus and they had tulips, hyacinths, and daffodils on sale so we got some of those as well. The tulips are alright, again nothing special. If they hadn't been on sale I wouldn't have bought them. Eventually I want to get some nice tulips but right now we'll enjoy what we have. The hyacinths are hands down my favorite from that batch. All pastel colors that smell wonderful and the rabbits don't mess with them. The plan was to have crocus up, then the hyacinths, then daffodils and tulips then we're well into spring and everything else is blooming. Well we got the first 2 of those to do well.
I'm also keeping my eyes peeled for Black Magic roses. They are a hybrid tea that my wife carried down the isle when we got married. Id love to get a couple of those but then there are not many roses that I'm opposed to.
Have your soil tested it won't hurt. Ammend the soil if you have to, then give those bleeding hearts a try. They are very tolerant, and they are so pretty. We bought a couple of them to fill in around the silver maple trees there were already a few in place. Bought them after they'd bloomed at one of the big box stores (could have been Walmart or Home Depot I don't remember) and got them for next to nothing. They wanted them gone to make room for something else and were not going to sell since they'd already bloomed that season. They were in 1 gallon pots or maybe 3 gallon pots I don't remember but there was nothing wrong with them other than taht. Little fertilizer when I planted them and they came back next year looking great and bloomed like they'd been there for years. Did the same with lilies after they'd bloomed and even hostas at the end of the year those things are so tough nothing phases them. I always park at the garden section at the big box stores so I can walk through and look for a deal. Never hurts.
If I don't talk you folks Happy Easter!
We've been having flurries most of the day. It figures because Saturday I did plant some lettuce, radishes, and spinach in the garden. Thankfully nothing is staying on the ground. The furnace has been running most of the day. I think Mother Nature is back on track though. I hope all had a wonderful Easter. I did I didn't have to cook.
Went to sons and daughter in laws home in Mio. I could get use to that, I've done the Holiday dinners now for 35 years!
