Spring FEVER has hit and is in full swing! This year I'm focusing my energy on planting ALL THE THINGS at my fiance's house, in preparation for our marriage and wedding in the fall, then and after this will be OUR home. In February we put in almost 200 bulbs all over the place and have 60 more on the way from Holland Farms Bulbs!! #hollandfarmsbulbs
In the big tractor tire we put in tulips and daffodils leaving space to add sunflower seeds in the back later in the season! #tulips #tuliplove #tulipplanting
Around the front porch there are some hostas thru the middle so along the back we did tulips and crocus and dwarf iris! #iris #bulbflowers #lovebulbs
Later we went back and decided it was time to plant a few more and we have a small deck beside the above ground pool so we created new beds on each side and planted hollyhocks and gladiolus! The hollyhocks will give us 5-8 ft in heigths to back up the back of the bed and be a real eye pleaser and the gladiolus will fill out the bottom!! #hollyhocks #flowerbeds
I created a new flower bed on the north side of the house. This is the very early stages and I started by putting down weed fabric and planted 3 rose bushes. The opening in the overhead canopy of oak trees will hopefully allow just enough sunlight to this location to allow the rose bushes to flourish! There are 3 different varieties but I'm probably most excited about the bright yellow that I put right in the middle, it'll be under the kitchen window! I plan to create a border for this bed soon, add some perennials, annuals and mulch it...all in the coming weeks!!!
Getting back to gardening season makes my soul so happy!!
Switch on over to my place and in my NEW grow room I've been starting LOTS of seeds!!! I have a ton of perennial flowers and herbs and annual flowers I've been starting, all to fill in these new and established beds at Jeff's house! #growroom
After just almost 2 weeks, things are going SO well in the grow room! I've had a great germination rate on most! #cosmos #yarrow #basils #catnip #catgrass
#lemonadecosmos #hollyhocks #peppers #tomatoes #cucumbers #watermelon #babysbreath #allysum
My grow room has only been established for about 2 weeks now and we grew from 4 grow lights to 6 this weekend so at least 2 more trays to go in very soon! At this point I have started all the veggies that I will be starting from seed and anything else new going in will be more flowers! I think we have plenty of herbs at this point too, lol! This is my grow room on this beautiful Saturday morning in North Central Arkansas and it is just as glorious as the weather today!
The last project I'll share for today is transplanting natural daffodils, my honey prefers to call them Jonquils, lol! They are his favorite flower and favorite thing about Spring and they grow all over the place in the wild. So I took our new Honda Pioneer we recently got (a huge HUGE win for our gardening and veggie growing adventures and love!) and dug up a bed full!
They transplanted so nicely and have stayed alive and happy even after a week. I put them in front of this log that Jeff is working on for me. He is going to carve out a section in the middle for me to plant some spiller flowers into. I already know exactly what is going to go in it, Proven Winners "Supertunias"!!! Come on April!!!! #provenwinners #supertunias #arkansasgardening
Thank you for stopping by to check on what is going on with my many gardening adventures. Now that spring has hit we'll be working on projects EVERY weekend. We absolutely love to be outside and working on things together and including the kids when their attention spans allow, lol! I am going to try to update weekly to create this beautiful log of the creation of a masterpiece, our place!
xoxo,
Elizabeth
