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I am thinking about getting new furniture for my patio. I have a really nice cypress swing that I had custom built for my husband years ago as a Father’s Day gift.

I have a table and chairs that I usually sit at with my cup of coffee in the morning.

I am thinking about a rocking chair that I saw not long ago. The only time I ever used a rocking chair was when my girls were young. Not sure why I am desiring to rock again but I just might go buy a couple of rocking chairs. I’m getting old! LOL 😆
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I should have covered my plumbago for our last freeze. I had a lot of dead branches that needed trimming.

I’m hoping that I didn’t prune the branches too far back and hoping that it will bloom it’s heart out like it usually does every year.

We certainly don’t have a lot of weather below freezing, so I usually don’t have to cover my plants in the garden.

I love the blue flowers on a plumbago plant. It seems to attract a lot of butterflies which I enjoy seeing while sitting on my patio.
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Gardening is good for us in every aspect. Something about the soil that gives us a needed boost. If anxiety or just stress of life is a real problem for you get outside and build a water garden, a small water feature. Just the sound of trickling water gives us peace of heart. Get a bird feeder and watch the birds. I could watch them all day. In your small water feature add a goldfish. !!!!! Look and enjoy
all the beauty around us god has carefully planned to hold us in awe. Thank you for listening to me go on and on!!!!!😂❤️
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Daughter,

Tulips are so pretty!
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My annual effort at tulips has largely been thwarted by the hunger of the area deer. Just when they were coming up and almost blooming, many of them were bitten off clean and became deer snacks. The ones closest to the house are now in bloom and beautiful. Hope the deer are happy☹️
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Azaleas are blooming everywhere now. So pretty!

I like easy gardening, such as tending to our hanging ferns on patio and porch. Planting flowers in pots near front door and on patio.

My husband does the planting in front and back yard.
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Too soon to start the garden here in Michigan. Hoping for an early spring. I have had a garden for years & we also have chickens on our homestead. I can tomatoes, jams, jellies & pickled veggies. I freeze the rest. I also have an herb garden that I dry and store for use through the winter. I have made handmade soaps for 24 years. I use lavender buds, rosemary, mint, basil & ground sage in my soaps. We live in an area where other people vacation. I sell my soaps at a little shop in town.
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Need -that sounds perfect!
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Going to our botanical gardens today with hubby and friends. Hoping to see many beautiful flowers in bloom!

Getting lunch afterwards! Beautiful day here, high in the upper 70’s!
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Lovely warmer, not warm day here, good for getting outdoors and pruning away lots of frozen limbs and plants. Planted some bulbs for blooms in late spring. And having thoughts of the originator of this thread, Garden Artist, noting she hasn’t been around in a while. GA, hope all is well and coming up roses in your life and garden
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We still have snow on the ground from that endless December to January pattern. Getting more snow tonight and tomorrow. We won't have our last snow until late April or May.

It is probably too late to plant daffodils in socal. I think the bulbs need a minimum of something like six weeks in the cold winter ground.
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Spring is here said the bumble bee,
How do you know said the old oak tree,
I just saw a daffodil
Dancing with a fairy on a windy hill.
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My Japanese magnolia in my front yard is full of buds. My favorite tree is the live oak tree. We have really beautiful live oaks in City Park and Audubon Park. My second favorite are magnolia trees.
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Hello.
I ran across my very special magazine "The English Garden", recommended by you, Garden Artist. Thank you so much!

My subscription ended in December, but it is still a pleasure to look over these.
Better than therapy, and easier than the actual gardening work, I can still dream.

Wondering where and when I can plant some daffodils in a hurry for my neighbor to see. My March 2022 magazine has tulips galore, and jonquils.
Maybe the English call daffodils tulips? I don't know.

What I do know is the daffodil is a bulb, not a seed. So, somewhere, somehow, the daffodil is ready to bloom in the spring. I just have to get my hands on some now.
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Love paper white narcissus. Going to try to grow them and other bulbs after I move. I want a "wild" spring garden of daffies, narcissus, grape hyacinth, and tulips spread all over the place. Jolly lump ups, scillas and japanese anemones too.

Poppies are wonderful too. I especially like the big oriental coral colour ones, but all are great.

glad - I leave my seed heads in place both for the birds and also for them to spread naturally. I have many delphiniums seeded from one plant. I am not one for a very structured garden. I like a natural look. Once I had a bed in front with dianthus, flax, violas, and I can't remember what else, just all mixed in with the juniper and looking after themselves from year to year. People stopped and looked at it. In fact part of my lawn was purple from the escaped violas a few years. I really would have liked the whole lawn to be violas if I could have done it but they died back.
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I kept thinking I should cut back my Prairie Coneflowers. Now I am very happy I didn't the neighborhood birds are having quite the feast!
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I felt a need to dig in dirt. I planted a big pot of daffodils in the sun room.
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I loved seeing the poppies when I vacationed in California! California is a beautiful state with the best weather.
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There is sun today.
So happy to have paperwhite narcissus blooming along the driveway.
These just pop up yearly, more each time. I think the squirrels may spread the bulbs. Or maybe it just grows and spreads that way.

With all the recent rains, people are saying that the poppies will be abundant this year.
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My grandfather was a wonderful gardener. He grew beautiful flowers and vegetables too.

My grandmother would never have done any work in the garden. She made fabulous fig preserves from their fig tree.

The neighbors had a pecan tree and they would trade the fig preserves for pecan pies! Nice deal!
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Here we have summer and winter plants blooming at the same time! They don’t know what to do.
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We are having a January thaw that never ended, the temperatures are still mostly above freezing and are predicted to remain that way for at least the next week.... definitely weird weather.
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So…untypical winter this year. Usually I can count on snapdragons and pansies to bloom all winter despite freezes and even the dianthus survive and bloom during the warmer times. We had a freeze that killed all, except a few pansies, which are increasingly becoming deer snacks. The yard is barren and bloom less, I feel like I’m in the north and defeated by winter! Oh well, taking tulip bulbs out of the fridge this weekend to plant, they’ve been enjoying winter there, time to move into the ground so they can show off in late March
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😉

"You can't plant flowers
🌸🌸🌸🍀🍀🍀🌸🌸🌸
if you haven't botany."
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Thank you Bridget!

I have a great picture of a Palo Verde tree in full bloom and it can't be posted here, just doesn't work, so I have experience with that :-)
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ITRR, The pic I took to email looks like a green blob as avatar. I'll try again tomorrow when I have better light on my sunporch.
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Bridget, can you share the picture by making it your avatar? I would love to see it.

Thank you in advance :-)
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I felt good about my with 23 blooms. took a pic and sent to my GF. She sent back a pic of one she got from Mom. I was covered in blooms about 40. I've never seen one with that many blooms. Her mother was a master gardener. Had a yard full of beautiful plants and a sunporch full too. That will never be me.
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My Christmas cactus has 23 flower buds!
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Bridget my Christmas cactus has 2 blooms on it, but its pretty small!
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