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Frost, Rain…No Flowers= Glum Gardener

11.04.07 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments


I tried to stay upbeat, I really did, but the way spring has turned I feel rather glum today. Puddleglum Glum. Anyhoo… I look out my windows and with the rain I can’t garden, the frost left the magnolias tormented and now dead looking, the rest of the spring flowers pretty spare. Ah well.

I did, however, put some work into getting my tulips page updated and online, Just Tulips. In a normal year, I would suggest visiting gardens to see examples of tulips that you like, but this year I’m not sure how the tulips are faring. My Darwins hadn’t opened yet, but the flowers and their foliage are all flopped over. The useful thing about checking out spring blooms is that you usually order bulbs long after you’ve forgotten all about spring, but if you write down the garden combinations and varieties of tulips that you like now, it helps when ordering from catalogs,etc. I think it makes more of a difference with tulips than it does with other fall-planted spring-blooming bulbs; tulips have such differing heights bloomtimes and colors that seeing them in real life makes so much of a better visualization.

I also wrote a little something on the Renegade Gardener’s 2007 perennial choices. I love the plants he considers premium plants for the garden- definitely going to look for those this year!

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  1. Colleen says

    April 12, 2007 at 1:53 pm

    Oh, Ilona…I feel your pain 🙂 I’ll be lucky to see tulips at all this year thanks to our freeze/snow that hit last week..just at the wrong time. The forsythias had just bloomed when the freeze hit, and instead of cheerful yellow blossoms, I have shriveled, yellowish/brownish mush.

  2. Ilona says

    April 12, 2007 at 2:15 pm

    Many of us are in this together, aren’t we? Hoping for a summer that fulfills all those winter fireside dreams, now!
    seeing the mush ( that soon turns to brown and drooping little wisps) is just so sad….

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