Good morning, and I'm getting impatient. Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.
We've had another week of calm weather here in Denver — highs in the 40s, lows in the 20s. The storm that's hitting you Easterners blew through here on Thursday. We got a bare trace of moisture, just enough to dampen the blacktop.
The snow is gradually retreating on the grass patch in the back yard, and I can see a bit of green around the edges. Because of the northern exposure, the area right next to the deck will likely remain snow-covered until mid-to-late March, unless we have extremely warm weather.
We may get a bit of snow, or rain/snow mix, over the weekend and early in the week, with lows going down into the single digits Monday night.
I'd promised a photo of my favorite hyacinth vase once the flower bloomed, and now you have it. The glass is a crackle glass cone, held in a stand of twining brass leaves. The hyacinth is Pink Pearl — it has smaller florets and a darker pink stripe than the Fondant pictured last week.
I'm really light on content this week — it's still too early to start seeds, although I do have 36 plugs of roman chamomile growing in plastic egg cartons, and I did get the seed starting lights up from the basement. Now that was a challenge as I had to thread my way through the excess aquariums and accoutrements, as well as dig it out from behind the stored dahlia tubers and gladiola bulbs, which have filled the basement and cold storage space.
Meanwhile, go through your plant materials, take inventory and see if you have anything you want to offer up next week during the garden swap. I've already sent off all the seeds that it seemed like a good idea when I ordered them, but my eyes were larger than my garden, but I'll likely have some extra dahlias and, perhaps, glads. The way it works: list what you have, list what you want, and then make arrangements for shipping by e-mail. I really treasure the plants I've received from garden bloggers over the years; I have Siberian iris, bearded iris, asters and hostas happily growing in my yard and reminding me of my kossack gardening friends.
The last Saturday in February will be the fifth (fifth? fifth!?) anniversary of SMGB. That's like 200 blog years, right?
That's what's happening here. What's going on in your gardens?