It's spring.  A new growing season is coming.  I am back at the garden center, so I know for sure it's spring.  The weather has been ridiculously warm.. so people are coming into the garden center ready to plant their plants.  No, Not Yet.  Too early.  I sure would love to see some moisture.  In Colorado, March is supposed to be our snowiest season, well, there hasn't been much snow, and we aren't even getting rain.  I hope it's not going to be another dry year!!!

I am excited…

Last couple of weeks have been out in the garden cleaning up for summer. Looking over last years plantings checking out which ones made it and which ones didn't. So far it would appear that most have made it through the winter. Lost one newly planted rose, Perfect Moment. It is such a beautiful bloom that I had to replace it. It is right now in the garage slowly acclimating to the outdoor weather and soon I will put it in the ground.

I also bought a climbing white rose,…

Can't say that I woke up one day and said... "Gee, when I grow up I'm going to be a gardener". As it has just always been a part of my life. A part of my life without even making a conscious commitment to be a gardener.

As a child living on a farm, working the earth and tending plants was a way of life. But farming on a large scale is not really the same as gardening.  Tending a garden is more intimate and personal. My father farmed, but he also gardened. My mother gardened, her part…

Just now posting for the new year. WOW, it is already February. Planning for the new growing season. Have some hardscaping work to on the agenda for this year. Was looking over photos from last growing season... hoping my new plants make it through their first winter... it was a mild winter to start and has flipped to cold, with snow... so that's good.