^^ HAHA me too!

same here!! Melt, Snow, melt!! :)

I am itching to dig in the dirt.

Me too! :-)

Mmmm, I have been digging in the dirt...and as a definite no-dig type of gardener, I have not been enjoying the insane allotment makeover ripping out all the old raised timber beds and re-digging (and building) totally new ones. Back when I started, I thought I had loads of time...which I did, back then...but have wasted days, idling on the sofa, knitting. Unfortunately, I embarked upon this mad scheme and now have no choice but to continue...still, germination will be starting apace.

It's the mid 50's and sunny today so I spent some time outside earlier just cleaning things up. We had a couple of big windstorms recently and there's a lot of debris that needs tending to. Still a bit too wet with the soil do much more although I've plenty of weeding and planting I could do. The next few days are supposed to stay sunny and even warmer so hope it dries things up enough I can get some real work done!!

If nothing else I can do some pruning and repotting :-)

85 here (D/FW) and have been to the nursery 3 times today. :)

I took advantage of a warm day a couple of weeks ago to try and rip out established English ivy that drives me crazy and needs to go. I will say from now on I don’t recommend starting spring with an annoying and exhausting project. I swear, after two hours of fighting ivy roots and tangles I was ready for winter.

“I am itching to dig in the dirt.”

I’ve been saying that for weeks now....but still covered in snow here :(. It will be awhile yet before I can get my nails dirty. I envy those of you who can.

There are plants in the sunroom that are anxiously waiting to be planted! Pots in the garage to be pulled out!

My cabin fever has me very restless....

(not to mention pissed off at Mother Nature!;)

I did a little garden work the Wednesday before last, getting planting spots ready. And I hope to do some pruning tomorrow--a new lopping shear is calling to me.

I've been out digging and looking for shoots for the last couple of weekends, despite some crappy weather here. I am going to be away starting next week for two months so I'll probably miss most of the tulips I planted, wah! I noticed some daffodils coming up this morning and have been enjoying some snowdrops and hellebores belonging to my neighbors. I'll be adding hellebores to my own garden soon for sure!

I don't know. It's been so consistently cold and I've had the flu thing which has been going around - this version leaves you totally exhausted. So I'm happy to stay inside and mostly lie in bed. Not feeling one bit anxious...more like take your time, but when you do come, be sure about it - please no back and forth nonsense :-)

No digging here, but that's because it was all done and dusted weeks ago. Mulched too. Just waiting for it to get a little warmer to start sowing veg seeds. At the same time I'll be planting out the veg seedlings which are sitting in the green house ready to go. Maybe next week... in the ornamental garden there's a riot of daffs, Crocus, primulas and hellebores. Hyacinths are in bud. The only thing that's really gone wrong is the damned grey squirrel eating two dozen greigii tulips in pots which were well on their way to flowering.

I kept so busy this winter that for once the dreary season flew by! I actually had not thought about plants or seeds or much at all related to gardening until about a week ago. Very unusual for me, since I usually have hundreds of seedlings growing in my basement by now.

However, I just started a temp job in which they made it clear my job was to wait for the phone to ring and make coffee, so I started to peruse my favorite plant sites and forums in my free time...and I started recalling all the plants I bought or obtained last summer...soooo much to welcome this year. A partial list off the top of my bored head:

Masterwort (3 colors)

Russian Sage

Endless Summer & Annabelle Hydrangeas

3 colors of asters

Turtlehead

Several new sedum varities

Several mum varieties

Delphinium

Hollyhocks

Champlain Roses that were hiding under some hedges in the front

Dwarf Joe Pye

Poppies

Lamb's Ear

Northern Light's Mandarian

2 varieties of Ligularia

Iris

Tulips (offered to me by a neighbor and HAD to dig them up in June to get them...so hoping they made it through the year)

Allium

Euphorbia Polychroma (and a red one whose name escapes me at the moment)

....and more

Not to mention...I finally braved splitting the fern peony that was here when I moved in and was able to split it into 14 divisions. I placed them all around the house, so I'm hoping to see a lovely display this spring.

Your paeonies are likely to take a year to settle back in for a flowering next spring, GEBTGT.

Darn...I'd heard this, but also heard this, but was hoping I got lucky. That reminds me that I also got a few peony bushes from a new homeowner who was digging up a perennial garden left by the previous owner =) No idea what color they will be. The woman was over 100 when she died and the neighbor told me she had had most of her stuff for YEARS, so hoping for perhaps some neat old variety!