Good morning, and it's all better now. Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.
We had a wicked change in the weather arrive on Monday — especially wicked as contrasted with the week before. Instead of highs in the 70s, Monday's high was 10°, with spits of snow on and off all day; the overnight low went to -11°. Ick. Especially icky since I had to take poor Caligula to the vet to get a bad abscess attended to.
We recovered quickly, and by yesterday we were in the mid-50s — and Caligula had his drain removed, and the e-collar off his head.
Today highs in the 60s are predicted, but a brief cold front is predicted for tomorrow — followed by a quick warm up and back into the 60s by mid-week. Damn, but this has been a warm winter for us.
I'm still pulling forced hyacinth out of my refrigerator — at any given time I have three or four pots at various stages of development. This picture shows the difference between Pink Pearl and Fondant: Pink Pearl has darker pink stripes and takes a little more time than Fondant. Useful information for planting outside: one could do a mixed bed of the two types, and have a longer-term bloom of pink hyacinth.
The roman chamomile and morning glory seeds I planted a week and half ago are up and doing well. The morning glories will be almost impossible to keep under the fluorescent lights for long, as they are getting tall fast. I'll likely take them into the office for a few weeks after they're moved into larger pots. We have some huge southern-exposure windows there; I can't move my whole operation, but can tuck three or four small pots into one of the offices on that side.
Then again, as warm as this winter has been, I may be able to put them on the front porch instead. There already are bulbs coming up, meaning I'll have to get out there soon and plug the bulbs I didn't get planted last fall into the ground. I think I'll be able to plug the "baby" bulbs — crocus, rock iris, species tulips, and miniature narcissus — in this afternoon. They've been in cold storage all winter, so should bloom just fine.
That's what's happening here. What's going on in your gardens?