Five years ago I got a small pot of these “annuals” from my kids school green house. They really aren’t supposed to do this in this zone. But every year even after being sprayed heavily by my husband after I fill my pot, they come back up the next year and bring their friends. This year I decided to just roll with it. They are pretty and bloom for a long time. You can see the pot I started with them in. The first year they filled it nicely but that’s it. Now these picture only show you part of them. They just keep spreading.

Well, almost! The citronella (citrosa) plants that I started from cuttings are loving life for the most part. A few are a little leggy but that’s on me. (My best friend and my 2 sisters are enjoying the ones I gave them, as well as the other plants I sent home with them.) I am pleasantly surprised to see the morning glory blooming because it hasn’t been very happy since I moved it out to the greenhouse. Temperatures were a little colder than it prefers but the fact that it’s blooming has given me some hope. Yesterday I transplanted over 30 pepper plants and a couple of tomatoes. I’ll do more of the tomatoes this afternoon I think. The petunia was bought at a local greenhouse, as were a couple of other decorative plants. My flowers didn’t germinate; most likely due to the fact some of the seeds were decades old. I’m not in any hurry to get anything put outside yet because of the wind. My raised beds still need to be topped up with soil as well so nothing can go in them yet either. I also learned that ground cherries do not like the cold either. The 4 I started were doing great in the house but got a little chilly a few nights ago and are looking very sad. Tuesday was my birthday, and on Wednesday my daughter asked if I wanted to go greenhouse hopping. She sneakily paid for the Nanking Cherry I picked out so now I have to find a home for it; most likely in my growing orchard. What’s happening in your garden at this point? Still too cold or are the perennials in full bloom?

My spider is blooming like crazy. I have this one in an east bathroom window. It obviously loves it there. Pictures aren’t great with the light coming at me but hopefully you can see all the blooms.

I’ve had this chunk in the dirt for a long time thinking it wasn’t going to take but look what I found today. It’s had a baby!!

It’s a beautiful day today so I decided last-minute to take a drive out to my cabin. And by last-minute I mean no paper, pen, tape measure, or anything that would have been helpful to measure out the “yard” area. I did do a rough measure with my phone and took notes in an app but it’s not the same as pen, paper, and tape measure. I’m considering about 2 acres so I have room for fruit trees and some flowers down the road. It’s spring but everything is already crunchy under my feet and the ground is hard and cracked. It is good to see some water in the sloughs though, so the neighbour’s cows will have a few more options for drinking. At least for the first round in the pasture. This is taken so I can have somewhat of a visual when I’m getting my fencing materials figured out. I was standing about 300’ away so I think there’ll be plenty of room for parking and additional accommodations.