I Lied - More Garden Pic Spam
Dec. 21st, 2007 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
botiasNothing like a little manual labor to soothe the soul, unless maybe it's an elementary school catalog clippings and paste project.
That is frost on the grass! Big Winter Stuff for us here on the coast. My mother used to warn me in ominous tones growing up on those nights when it was expected to get Below Freezing OMG.
Lately I planned out my garden for the space enclosed by my brick wall with the help of a seed catalog or two. Nearly all of the plants either attract bees and butterflies, have wonderfully scented foliage or both. Oh, and I think they are pretty, and besides that, experience has shown me that they require little cultivation. I like plants that are one step removed from their weedy relations, if that. I planned it out in pencil first, just writing the names of the plants in little plant bubbles. I only do this for new gardens, after that... *shrug*
Finally, I couldn't resist doing a full color version, posted below, which resulted in some good changes.
"Winter in the garden is the season of speculation ... for now is when large wagers of gardening time and space are made on the basis of mere scraps of information--a hankering, a picture in a catalog, a seed. We gardeners have always had trouble heeding Henry Ward Beecher's sound nineteenth-century advice, that we not be 'made wild by pompous catalogs from florists and seedsmen.'"
-Michael Pollan
Some of this stuff will fail. I've yet to successfully grow sunflowers, and starting perennials from seed can be a tricky business. Unlike annuals who are more inclined to just go for it, since they must get it all done in one growing season, perennial seeds are more like a cat deciding whether the weather is quite nice enough to step outside. Perhaps this year's conditions aren't just right, might be better to wait. Since the sprouting conditions are under my control, it's up to me to please them.
That is frost on the grass! Big Winter Stuff for us here on the coast. My mother used to warn me in ominous tones growing up on those nights when it was expected to get Below Freezing OMG.
Lately I planned out my garden for the space enclosed by my brick wall with the help of a seed catalog or two. Nearly all of the plants either attract bees and butterflies, have wonderfully scented foliage or both. Oh, and I think they are pretty, and besides that, experience has shown me that they require little cultivation. I like plants that are one step removed from their weedy relations, if that. I planned it out in pencil first, just writing the names of the plants in little plant bubbles. I only do this for new gardens, after that... *shrug*
Finally, I couldn't resist doing a full color version, posted below, which resulted in some good changes.
"Winter in the garden is the season of speculation ... for now is when large wagers of gardening time and space are made on the basis of mere scraps of information--a hankering, a picture in a catalog, a seed. We gardeners have always had trouble heeding Henry Ward Beecher's sound nineteenth-century advice, that we not be 'made wild by pompous catalogs from florists and seedsmen.'"
-Michael Pollan
Some of this stuff will fail. I've yet to successfully grow sunflowers, and starting perennials from seed can be a tricky business. Unlike annuals who are more inclined to just go for it, since they must get it all done in one growing season, perennial seeds are more like a cat deciding whether the weather is quite nice enough to step outside. Perhaps this year's conditions aren't just right, might be better to wait. Since the sprouting conditions are under my control, it's up to me to please them.
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Date: 2007-12-21 11:57 pm (UTC)As I told you on IM, I love all the purples and fuschias in your plan. It's gonna be a wild, fragrant, lovely garden by the time summer arrives. I hope you'll share pictures when it's fully in bloom.
<3 you.