We’ve had rain and fog everyday this week. The rain is gradually changing the mounds of gray snow into puddles. The days have
been dreary but there is a promise of sunshine next week.

I'm enjoying the gardens of others until mine emerges

Ah! Spring time in Minnesota; black rotting snow, playing pothole slalom and the smell of hot asphalt in the air. It's a little early this year. I'm betting on one more blizzard, about April. Meanwhile those of you in more southerly latitudes are posting and tweeting: The crocuses are blooming! The robins are singing! Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Me? I'm excited because I just saw a smidgen of green at my door, just in time for St Patrick's Day...read more about this great perennial at

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What new plants have you found at your local nursery? These are new 2010 introductions you might find. http://www.terranovanurseries.com/r/pages/plant-categories/new-plants.php

Hmmm, what to write? I've been doing an awful ot of thinking about gardening lately. I did plant some columbine seeds and put two avocado pitts in water to try to get them to grow plants. I'm so anxious for spring to be here!

STEP THREE – CREATE UNITY IN THE GARDEN:

The woodlands are teaching me so much about landscape design. Unity is a basic principle of garden design

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so happy to see my crocus popping up yesterday!

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What did you do, try, finish, accomplish, enjoy or just dream of?

When and how is the best time to fertilize your yards in Kansas. i have a very large front yard and looking for a ego frindly and economic way to fertilize....... i also love ornimental grasses, and have tryed starting pink champane, blue fescu, and zebra? my question is how do you get those beautiful clumps and how many seeds does it take to get one?