planting a garden this spring?

[almaty 19]

soon sanita, drag me to the Lowe's etc.to buy about 12 bushed for her birds..and palnt them..along with a couple of hickory nut tress for her squirrels....also, buy some flowers, but i do not have any idea, what hummingbirds like...

anyone else, ready for spring planting? and what are you planting this year?

[*julez* 124]

I am ready for spring planting, but the ground here is not ready for it! Still have a foot of snow on the ground. I maintain a perennial flower garden and try to add a few new flowers each year. Still debating what will be the new adds this year. Obviously, I still have time to decide!

Edited March 13, 2008 by julezabelle

[almaty 19]

wow, good for you.....our ground is frozen too..i am hoping by the end of march or early april to start preparations

[kim&james 0]

I have been starting to get my dirt ready, having added some organic fertaliser and mulch. I am planting some ornamental grasses, some lavenders, lots of annuals for colour. I have a huge yard but am only working on the front at the moment.

Make sure that you get plants specific to your area. Make sure you get your bulbs in as soon as your ground is ready. Mine will be ready for the pile of gladies I have in the fridge in about a week.

[almaty 19]

thanks for the advice.... i am also, planning on planting some ornamental grasses...

[Carlawarla 1]

Brother Dean!

Gene and I changed our veggie garden into a "sitting" garden. We landscaped with very little money. We also did a "cafe" garden. Small trees and bushes. We're avid bird watchers, and all you need to attract hummingbirds is flowers and perhaps a hummingbird feeder. Last year we expanded a bit and we're going to put some plantings around trees and near our shed. Lots of wild flowers! Here's a pic of some of our yard. I can't wait until spring/summer!

Edited March 13, 2008 by Carlawarla

[Cassie 8]

The hummingbirds love my patch of lavender I have by my front door.

If we stay in this particular house, I plan on making a raised flower bed along the side of the house that has the most street frontage.

If we don't I have to wait and see where we are moving, and then figure out where I plant the lavender

[Ban Hammer 13,345]

someone say hummingbirds? meet "bill" and "monica"

[almaty 19]

Brother Dean!

Gene and I changed our veggie garden into a "sitting" garden. We landscaped with very little money. We also did a "cafe" garden. Small trees and bushes. We're avid bird watchers, and all you need to attract hummingbirds is flowers and perhaps a hummingbird feeder. Last year we expanded a bit and we're going to put some plantings around trees and near our shed. Lots of wild flowers! Here's a pic of some of our yard. I can't wait until spring/summer!

excellent ...very nice sister carla

The hummingbirds love my patch of lavender I have by my front door.

If we stay in this particular house, I plan on making a raised flower bed along the side of the house that has the most street frontage.

If we don't I have to wait and see where we are moving, and then figure out where I plant the lavender

hmm lavender..thanks

someone say hummingbirds? meet "bill" and "monica"

great pixs..we have 3 feeders ..but putting them on a pole id a great ideal

[Cassie 8]

Brother Dean -- lavender loves loves loves direct sunlight, and is drought tolerant. My front porch gets a ton of direct heat (Oklahoma summers can be nasty) and other than watering it the first few weeks after planting, I didn't have to make a point of watering it, rainfall was sufficient. It may not flower the first year -- that's ok! Just cut it back about a third in the spring, and and just weed as necessary. "tis good stuff!

Yeah, I have a thing for lavender

[almaty 19]

cool sister cassie, i have never planted it and look foward to doing so this spring....thanks again

[Niels Bohr 72]

Plant Hibiscus Trees, Japanese Maple, Climatis....The climatis are cheap, but, very hard to maintain.

[LuzyC 0]

We just moved here in our new house 2 weeks ago and we have big ( for me) front and backyard. I do have an idea of what I want in the front yard and I told Gary all that already.I just want to have a front yard that all our friends and people who come over feel they are all welcome by the front yard design !

So Gary my sweetie embrace yourself with our garden shopping soon!! Don't worry I'll be gentle....

Goodluck to you and your wife with your garden works Dean..

[almaty 19]

We just moved here in our new house 2 weeks ago and we have big ( for me) front and backyard. I do have an idea of what I want in the front yard and I told Gary all that already.I just want to have a front yard that all our friends and people who come over feel they are all welcome by the front yard design !

So Gary my sweetie embrace yourself with our garden shopping soon!! Don't worry I'll be gentle....

Goodluck to you and your wife with your garden works Dean..

lol..sister luz, brother gary be like me..busy outdoors, at least, you do not like allot of fences

[Amby 490]

We will be doing planting soon as well. I started a thread last week but mine was about vegetable gardens. I can't decide what I will have Neil plant lots of this year. Last year I had him outside planting tons of tulips. Our yard is very landscaped since my uncle owns a landscaping company and uses our yard as a "show yard" since we live on a main road. All of the daffodils look like they're about to bloom. Hopefully they're up for Easter since it is so early this year.

Cassie does lavender get out of hand and try to grow all over or does it just stay where it's planted? Was always curious about that because I love the look and smell of it. Thought about planting it along the stream next to our house where there are lots of wildflowers.