If spring moves closer and closer every year, in coming ten years we will have no winter. That is my dream, but maybe some time of sleep is good enough for garden and gardener. I wanted to end winter faster this year. I wanted some fresh breath and green horizons again. And my will was heard by mother nature. Spring is already here. I already weed something, get my hands dirty, transplant something and sow few seeds. I think that time with mad sowing is close me. Then I will sow everything, place pots on every garden corner and make it all filled with something new. This year I will sow some seeds, which is waiting for their time more than 3 years. I am not a lazy gardener, just never have enough space for it. And now, with new garden I can stop limit myself. That is so nice. Like let bird from it's cage.
My first replanting started with snowdrops. I like them, because they first start to bloom. But they are white again. Remind us of snow. So might need some other spring early blooming plants to mix with snowdrops. Here already grow some Muscari mixed species.
And the most impressive view is first live mark in daylilies. Here is my big treasure from Claudia Conway. Her seedling (Montana Sky x Maya Blue). I get it as a fan from her garden. Hardly went there, but it is safe and growing after winter.
Other treasure is lovely VIVA GLAM GIRL (William Marchant). I waited to see it live. I get a small fan of it from C.Conway. And it is growing. Wish it will bloom in next summer. This year it must to increase or just feel the new ground. It is special plant for my breeding works. I wanted something double. But Viva Glam Girl is perfect double maker. William shown a lot of great seedlings from it. And I have some from his seeds bloomed. Only first year blooms, not very clear, but double. So wait it will let me do more and more with doubles.
Even just some plants start vegetation, my garden still look dead in full side view. Grass is not raked, because I had some nice works with future daylily beds and other garden spots. But I want to add these pictures for track of my garden changes. Several people asked to do that, and I feel it will be nice. Still need to make garden look not so slim, divide it in several sections, make green walls and rooms with different feelings in it. But for now, I work only with greenhouse place and daylily beds.
Our vegetable garden part. Will be filled with vegetables this summer. I have a lot of seeds, of various vegetables. It must be tasty, because soil is very rich.
Some greenish photo from closer to home part. Still a lot of places to clean, weed, remove grass and etc. But it get shape and do not look like simple field. Some zones. In right - vegetable garden, on the left - herbaceous border, going to daylily beds (still in process), in right upper side you see irises zone, and in the back my daylily circle project. In following days will sow green fertilizers, to increase soil fertility. Researches give me results, that soil is very poor in that side. So will put compost to each daylily when planting.
Snowdrops from my past garden. They do fine, even replanted not on the best time.
Alliums. Love these giant ones. Emerging from ground very fast. Want to show their beauty.
Tulips from past garden. Looks like only one or two blooms in this area. Too small bulbs I planted. So need some fertilizers, and might get them bigger for next spring.
Something amazing I noticed, when walking with phone camera in garden. Muscari started to show buds. Only this hybrid started this yearly. Others just show leaves. Maybe it will help me to identify this one. Bigger leaves, than others.
Iris reticulata 'Katharine Hodgkin' emerging from ground too. I get this from Janos Agoston and hope it will be true Katharine Hodgkin, because in this way I got only others, not true to name. But this is reliable source. So fingers crossed for early blooms.
Crocus, which I get very cheep doing nice. When I open bags, and started to plant then in autumn, I thought I will have nothing green in spring, because bulbs was so small and majority of them look like get some rot. But they are growing. Not every of them make, but I have even few blooms. They multiply fast, so will have this area covered in few years.
I hope we will build our greenhouse without any problems, because it is new to me. So will work as hard as I can. Wish next post will be about new greenhouse and maybe daylily moving to new garden. It must be big moving. I remember how I write here, that I move my daylilies to grandmother garden. Then was hard. But I filled only one long row with 3 and 1/2 beds. But during that time I sow, planted and separated some seedlings. And now in grandmother garden she have over 18 daylily beds. And I am planning to move them all to my garden and keep under my wing.
I wish this season will be interesting, challenging and full of blooms.
Best wishes from Lithuanian daylily and iris gardener.
