Comments on: Two weeks ahead http://blog.blithewold.org/spring/two-weeks-ahead/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Thu, 23 May 2013 15:15:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Layanee http://blog.blithewold.org/spring/two-weeks-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-7784 Layanee Thu, 06 May 2010 22:58:47 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=3636#comment-7784 I have the same combo of 'Artist' tulips and Phlox. I love it. I will not bend to pressure and plant too early. I did hear from a local garden center buyer that many suppliers are now out of tomatoes. Out of tomatoes! May 6th, they are out of tomatoes. Sounds like we had better hope the warm trend continues. Oh, and no way we can cut the season short by two weeks. Please don't say it. LOL <em>Wow - I can't believe that about being out of tomatoes! But then May is looking an awful lot like June... Feels like May this morning though. Brrrr! -kris</em> I have the same combo of ‘Artist’ tulips and Phlox. I love it. I will not bend to pressure and plant too early. I did hear from a local garden center buyer that many suppliers are now out of tomatoes. Out of tomatoes! May 6th, they are out of tomatoes. Sounds like we had better hope the warm trend continues. Oh, and no way we can cut the season short by two weeks. Please don’t say it. LOL

Wow – I can’t believe that about being out of tomatoes! But then May is looking an awful lot like June… Feels like May this morning though. Brrrr! -kris

]]> By: Susan Sims http://blog.blithewold.org/spring/two-weeks-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-7782 Susan Sims Thu, 06 May 2010 14:39:41 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=3636#comment-7782 I've planted out basil and tomato plants despite us having a regular spring. I'm just impatient. <em>Susan, My fingers are crossed for you! But I'm willing to bet you have some sort of ingenious system of protective cloches for when night temperatures dip - and you'll be eating insalata caprese long before the rest of us. -kris</em> I’ve planted out basil and tomato plants despite us having a regular spring. I’m just impatient.

Susan, My fingers are crossed for you! But I’m willing to bet you have some sort of ingenious system of protective cloches for when night temperatures dip – and you’ll be eating insalata caprese long before the rest of us. -kris

]]> By: Blackswampgirl Kim http://blog.blithewold.org/spring/two-weeks-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-7773 Blackswampgirl Kim Tue, 04 May 2010 20:20:57 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=3636#comment-7773 I'm amazed at what people are asking for at our garden center. And I spend lots of time warning them about temperamental sweet potato vines, etc. I love that spicebush--I so wish I had room for one of those. I don't even care if it doesn't smell sweet and spicy as promised, I love the color of those beautiful, unusual flowers. <em>Kim, I covet the calycanthus too but have to remind myself that I don't just love the smell of juicyfruit gum (what it smells like to me) and I am not allowed to buy any shrub that can grow to kitchen dimensions. (but then sometimes my own arbitrary rules are meant to be broken. Hamamelis 'Jelena' is a case in point...) -kris</em> I’m amazed at what people are asking for at our garden center. And I spend lots of time warning them about temperamental sweet potato vines, etc.

I love that spicebush–I so wish I had room for one of those. I don’t even care if it doesn’t smell sweet and spicy as promised, I love the color of those beautiful, unusual flowers.

Kim, I covet the calycanthus too but have to remind myself that I don’t just love the smell of juicyfruit gum (what it smells like to me) and I am not allowed to buy any shrub that can grow to kitchen dimensions. (but then sometimes my own arbitrary rules are meant to be broken. Hamamelis ‘Jelena’ is a case in point…) -kris

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