Time to focus on SPRING!!!

[amira84]

Thanks @Lynn49 and @LunchLady for your recommendations. I have already started looking for deals on fertilizers and seeds.

I am inclining more towards very colourful and fabulous smelling flowers for our front of the house. When i get used to this gardening thing then I'll start on some veggie stuff. I want to engage my son in gardening too. He loves colourful flowers and nice smells. Oh my...... am i dreaming or am i over ambitious?

[Lynn49]

Amira, I always have Stargazer Lilies in my garden just for the wonderful smell...they're in front of our livingroom window and when I crank them open that exotic, cinnamon scent wafts thru the house. In our former home (our DD and her DH bought it from us and we downsized by buying hers) we had an additional circular garden between the house and street and I used to love seeing people come to a screeching halt, then bend down to smell them, leaving with yellow noses! Lol! Google them...they're easy to grow and get better each year! Plant the bulbs in the spring (one of few that can be) and wait for your first crop of bright pink, happy and very sniffy flowers! Your little one would love them....

[Natalka]

I saw Giant Tiger had seed packs on sale for 33cents in the flyer today!

Hopefully picking some up today. If they don't have a good selection, our local Co-op hardware store will have them at the same price soon.

Just a note: check the expiry dates on them.... And naturally some company's seed qualities are better than others....just fyi...

They are Garden Corner, by Mackenzie. Have used them before and they are good - there aren't many in a pack (good for some of us), and nothing fancy - basic veg and flowers.

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[abbasgirl]

It's freezing out there! But youtube has lots of nature sound videos. I've been playing lots of bird songs lately...

[avoncallingu]

Unfortunately I have a reaction to lilies and some other spring flowers. But I love SEEING them.

[Lynn49]

Jays, those flowers are so precious! I just cannot WAIT to get my hand into some nice warm dirt!
I hope to paint a Stargazer Lily in my watercolour course; I'd have it blooming here all year through!

[Lynn49]

Stargazers...I usually just pick one flower and place it into a small glass...fills the house with its exotic scent!

[Lynn49]

I also have the "Wild Horses" lily in our garden..

[Lynn49]

Let's pick out our spring outfits!!
If I were the size I was in my youth, lol...this would have been me....



Now, I'm more like:
...and we share the same haircolour!! I practically live in white jeans all summer......

[GoJays]

I have all sorts of day lilies, Lynn. I love them because they're so easy. Plant them once and leave them alone.
I have a mountain laurel shrub that didn't bloom last year, probably because of the horrible winter we had. I'm hoping that this winter isn't too bad but it's not looking good. It just gets colder and colder when it should be slowly warming up. The buds and flowers are very cool.