Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
It’s a beautiful sunny day in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. The dirty snow pile across the street is mocking me, but I’m trying to take it all in stride. I’m glad that it hasn’t gotten really warm recently.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like cold weather, but I was worried that all of the snow would melt all at once. that would be a different kind of disaster.
The tulips are pushing their way up through the earth, hubs has the weekend off, and life is good.
I’ve started to put together a list of gardening books for children. Here is my list so far. Some of these may be harder to find, but as of this posting date, they are available through Amazon.
If you have suggestions for or comments about this collection, please leave them in the comments.
…and in with the new.
Remember this? Well, here are the fruits of my labor.
It snowed like mad on Saturday, but I’d been waiting all year for the seed exchange, and I was determined to go. I was rewarded well for my determination - great talks by local experts, and LOTS of seeds.
Here’s my list of booty:
Wildflowers +
Artichoke ‘Imperial Star’
Carrot ‘Short n’ Sweet’ packet says “Grows in heavy soils”!
Lettuce ‘Salad Bowl’
Garlic ‘Inchelium Red’
Convulvulus ‘Star of Yalta’
Russian Tarragon*
Container lettuce ‘Garden Babies Butterhead’+
Cosmos (orange)
Lobelia cardinalis
Papever somniferum ‘Laurens Grape’ +
Parsley
Nierembergia ‘White Robe’
Sorghum vulgare
Saponaria officinalis (Soapwort)
Linarea pupurea (purple toadflax)
Lilium ‘Star Gazer’
Consolida ajacis
Salvia ‘Hotline Blue’ *
Malva ‘Mystic Merlin’
Pennyroyal
Rudbeckia ‘Cherry Brandy’ *
Seeds from WinterSown Educational. (You can go to the website to get your own!)
Tomato ‘Hong Yuen’*
Tomato ‘Huang Se Chieh’*
Tomato ‘Green Zebra’*
Tomato ‘Early Kus Ali’*
Tomato ‘Roma’*
Tomato ‘Gilbertie’*
Rudbeckia ‘Irish Eyes’+
Convulvulus ‘Star of Yalta’+
Zucchini ‘Little Tree of Sarzana’+
Tomato ‘Large Red Cherry’+
Tomato ‘Tondina Maremmano’+
Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium)+
+ I received this in my event goody bag
* I received this from the “free” table
I also won a Neomarica gracillis (Walking Iris) as a door prize, and for filling out a survey form, a fern. All in all a fun and plant-filled day!
