Groundhog Day or Is There Really Such A Thing as Spring, Virginia

16 years ago

I checked on my brugs who have spent the winter napping in my good friend's basement. Don't you wish you had a friend like that? We also have to cultivate friendships with people who do not speak brugese just to keep us on our toes. She has a brown thumb & as such has few plants (a Pothos & a Christmas Poinsettia she hasn't killed off yet or given to me). I miss my brugs, I miss sunshine, warm air on my skin, a gentle breeze blowing my hair, sitting on the ground & digging in the dirt. I am tired of snow (& shoveling it), ice, sleet, freezing rain & bitter cold winds sucking the heat from my arthritic bones (Note: I will complain about the heat later on in the year).

Anyway, my big plants are starting to plump up a little & tiny leaves are sprouting from what I worried would be lifeless branches (except for Jamie who had 5 inch shoots until I picked them off, that was painful to me). I may have lost one small plant that I probably should not have let go dormant (should have listened to the experts). The cuttings at my house (all over my house) are starting to perk up & they told me they want to go live in the great outdoors. I talk to my plants & now I have been inside so long that the plants are now talking back to me. People are starting to talk about trades (oh goody, more bruggies, maybe a real person will talk to me!). Seed catalogs are filling the mailbox & tempting me to try (& possibly kill off) strange & exotic lifeforms.

Will the groundhog see his shadow? Can spring be far behind?

Linda

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technodweeb
16 years ago
The groundhog has to get out from under a foot of snow here.

I'm tired of it also. Sick of the cold - the dreary days, etc.

February has always been a bad month for me. And we're going into it. I hate february. It's dark when you get up and leave for work - it's getting dark when you get home - can go 2 weeks without seeing the sun - and there is salt all over everything, and trees all look stark and dead.

Very, very depressing here in February.

Just awful.
chena
16 years ago
Feb. is usually our coldest mo... BUT it is suppose to be 70* today..WOO HOO I guess no complaints here.. I am ready for Spring ...so I can get these plants out of here...
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We have groundhogs here too, yellow bellied marmots. For years at the research garden outside my office we had Big Mama and her one litter a year. They were adorable and playful. Mama would gather the grass clippings from the little bit of grass outside my office window and didn't bother the plants in the garden. Then two years ago some sheds got moved off the pavement into gravel and with new den sites available, the population exploded, by last summer there were dozens. Live trapping couldn't keep up and eventually we had to resort to Marmot-ageddon. It was sad, because we were fond of (a few) of them. But the poop and smell, gnawed lines under a vehicle ($200) and eventually damage to the plantings meant they had to go. It's been clear but smoggy/foggy here all day, so that means 6 more weeks of winter, which for here, is an early spring. I doubt we'll get it. There's still three feet of beautiful snow on the ground, though it's supposed to warm up a bit next week.
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chena
16 years ago
AWWW! I just heard that little rodent saw his shadow and 6 more weeks of winter..
daniellalell
16 years ago
S@#W that groundhog!!! He's a liar, lol. Spring will be here before we know it. Gotta think positive. It's in the 40's here right now, nice n sunny. can't wait till it's at least in the 60's. Was out earlier and I see so many lil green sprouts pokin up from under their winter leaf blankets, gives me hope! Cheer up Annette!! Spring IS coming!!!
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karmahappytoes
16 years ago
Agreeing with chena, we are in for more winter. I just wished they would of turned off all the camera lights and that way we would of known for sure?? I'm seeing spring flowers pop up in some places already but the weather saids freezing. All around us have snow so we are the lucky ones!! Keep the rain coming!!
fool4flowers
16 years ago
We need some rain. My yard is so dry. I think I'll go out and water the poor thing. I stayed home today to play with my plants. Well supposed to be doing housework but I don't feel like it. I lost a lot of the ones that I got around Christmas. Did the ones I sent you make it Mike? I hope so. I have some things to pot up and go cry over the losses. If I can just hang on a little longer and get them outside they will all be fine. Its such a beautiful day today. It makes me want to take everything outside. Ah well. I have all the doors and windows open so they can at least get some fresh air. I ordered a bunch of other kinds of plants today. I must be off my rocker, lol.
chena
16 years ago
I will sell this sunshine for rain!!! We do need it in the worst way!!!
beth7happy
16 years ago
Believe it or not, we DO get frost here in the little corner of Paradise called east Central Florida. I've been battlin' spider mites, drought...you name it...have several cuttings from Karyn that are doing well, plus three cuttings that I took from my own NOIDS (aka Christine, Breezy and Debby...my own names!)...today I repotted the three...hoping to salvage the plant from all the ravages. Spring WILL be coming! Honest! I've been seeing robins (they're still discussing going back north...) and was a beautiful day here. ...realize that we do have more chilly weather to come, but the 'itch' for the digging has arrived.....it tends to travel north at warp speed in the months of February and March....think about sticking seeds into pots...you'll have the jump start on tucking them into the ground right after mother's day! :) (Just think....all of those northern gardens just burst with color and bloom when the weather warms! There's nothing quite like watching the crocus and daffies give way to lilacs and peonies.....something that we don't get to see here in the Sunny South.......) and the snow? Well...it just gives you and extra punch of nitrogen, yes????? Anyone want to send my pussy willows???????? *smile*
karyn1
16 years ago
We had another icing Friday morning. I wish it was warm but Feb is usually our worst month. I noticed little sprouts along the trunks of some of my brugs that are in the unheated GH. I moved a few with the most growth into the heated GH to give them a head start. Linda you know you all will hear me complaining about the heat come July too. lol Just remind me of the sub-freezing temps when I start whining!
Karyn
jeep461
16 years ago
I love my brugs. Everything else is looking poor all the natives and trees and vines. My brugs are flowering and green. The 50 mph winds a few days ago and they bounce right back. Last year this time they were little sticks. I had not even had my 1st bud. Such a rewarding plant.

I think the groundhog was wrong. There is to be a snow melt from upper Texas all the way to northern US and heading east starting Monday. Weird weather Yes.
technodweeb
16 years ago
Daniella!

I received your envelope! That was so SWEET of you! You didn't need to do that!

She sent me seeds of Shasta Daisys, Salvia, Liatrus, Basil, Rose of Sharon, Tacoma Stans, Rudbeckia, Snap Dragons, Calendula!

I can't even pronounce some of these - I can't wait to look them up.

Thank you so much Daniella! They're wonderful and I can't wait to give them a try!

What "cheer up" in the mail!

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