I planted a few bulbs last fall and they have started to appear. I don't do spring bulbs but rather I just buy annuals. Over the last couple of years I have bought some drought resistance grasses and planted some lavender a couple of years ago to attract bees.

I have about 9 patio containers and will plant them with annuals as well. But we don't plant our annuals until May long weekend (Third weekend of May) so I haven't started to think about it yet.. The earth isn't warm enough until then.

I think I will do annuals in the rest of the flower pots I have as well. Seems easier, and you can change what you have every year.

I love waterlilies and late last summer, I crossed a pink with a blue with variegated pads. I am picking out my favorites...going by pads and potting them up now. They should be blooming in two months or less.

This is the "mother", or pod parent. I don't think I have a picture of the pollen parent on my phone.

So pretty! I don't think I have the patience or the skill to do anything like that.

Warm climate here with not a whole lot of winter. I had an omelette this morning with asparagus, cilantro and green onion from my garden. The cilantro is bolting. The kid's made tea with some of the mint earlier in the week.

Bulbs don't do well here because we don't get the winter they need. We went to the nursery on Sunday. Dh wanted some new milkweed and a Greggi's Mist for the butterflies. Dd got some dill and parsley for the butterflies and basil and a strawberry plant for herself. I bought zinnias, lantana, cosmos, coleus, pentas, and another cuphea. The butterflies are already in action. The mockingbirds must have showed up this week. My little dog planted himself in a flowerbed so he could chase them off.

Oooooo dill! I forgot about dill. I have a bag of 30000 seeds that my sister gave me! I love dill. I add it to green beans cooked in bacon fat with a splash of vinegar. Or I eat it in salads. The only thing, again,is that it doesn't regrow after being cut does it?

You have thirty thousand dill seeds?! You must really love dill.

Well, they were a "gift." My sister bought them for me,because for whatever reason, she cant get dill to grow. Everything else,be it fruit,veggie, herb or flower,she can. But dill does not grow well for her. She needs dill because she makes tons of regular pickles, pickled okra, dilly beans, etc. A lot of them. She has 6 kids and a hubby that eat pickled okra like candy. She also sells them to some local people who no longer do it themselves. So I grow the dill and she gives me some of the goods. (I hate okra though, so I request extra dilly beans and a jar of refrigerator pickles)

I don't know where she got them from,but i have enough dill seeds to plant for years to come.

IT sounds like you and your sister both get the good end of this deal. You're so lucky. My mom used to make pickled bread and butter pickles. That is long behind her but what a great memory.

Still too cold to plant. Annuals can't get planted till after mothers day.

I have tomato seedlings, sweet peppers, and squash started and they are doing well. I will plant out what I need and give the rest to our community garden. I have a row of spring lettuce already. The rest of my veggie garden I will direct sow when it’s time to plant, which is about 3 weeks from now. Any, you are right about cilantro, it is too warm in our part of the country to get much out of it. I stick to basil, dill, and a few others I throw in now and then. My rosemary is over 15 years old.

I already have tons of daffodil bulbs in the ground and don’t plan to add any new bulbs. I need to thin and replant one clump that is now in too much shade and would happily give some away if someone wanted them. I have many perennials that are greening up, and will plant a few annuals to fill in. I also will put out a couple of pots on the back patio that are mostly annuals. I used to have 6-8 pots, but no more. Too much trouble with all the watering.

Don't plant much any more but do the self-watering containers for tomatoes and peppers. I have tomatoes under the lights now, but we never plan on planting out until around Memorial Day. I had a lovely double impatiens in a pot, which I brought in last fall and it continued to bloom for a couple of months. I snipped off about a dozen stems and they are now rooting for me, so hope to have a number of the lovely things later on.

Hmmm, I was going to remind you not to plant dill and cilantro together b/c they cross pollinate in a bad way, but when I went to google there really isn't much info about it - maybe I'm wrong?

With dill and cilantro, I keep the seed packet near where I grow them and throw a few new seeds in every week. It (more or less) ensures I have some thruout the summer - except near the end when it gets really hot and I get lazy.

We grow annuals in containers designed by Proven Winners. Simple and beautiful.

No food crops.

Amylou, I was blown away by your recent description of your BIG awesome fence at your house. I suggest a climbing rose 'Mermaid' which has gorgeous large cream/yellow blooms and wicked thorns, and is huge. I had one years ago, it is beautiful.

Dill and cilantro (coriander) cannot cross pollinate....not sufficiently closely related. And they are both annuals anyway so unless you are seed saving, cross pollination or hybridization is not a concern.

I'm already harvesting early spring greens, green peas, and other delicious treats from the veggie garden. Had a great salad last night with fresh spinach, spicy greens, and pea tendrils.

I am growing several peppers and tomatoes under lights in my propagation setup in the garage from seed sown in January. They will be ready to flower when I plant them out in a few weeks.

I also grow many hundreds of annuals for planting in my flower beds, grown under lights in flats and cell packs. Most will already be flowering when I plant them.

My planning for this year's gardens began last year!

Marilyn, beautiful......just beautiful.

Well, my gardens at work are coming along nicely. All my roses except one have new growth. Some,like my Hypnotize rose already have giant buds, almost ready to open. I will spray them for disease tonight. My Glads and lilies out here have woken up, and my Peonies have buds on them, swarming with ants. As usual, i have neglected to dig up and divide the amaryllis, and they are out of control, but whatever, someone or someones always yanks at least one up and steals a whole bulb every year, so it will get thinned out that way. I have some amaryllis like bulbs that i planted, I cannot for the life of me remember the name.....it starts with a "c". Anyway, they have never bloomed. Here's hoping this is the year.

I have loads of our used coffee grounds to spread out and rake in the dirt, some bone meal, some rose tone, etc. This is my last night before my vacation, so I want to make sure that they are good until i get back. I might skip the rose tone and mix up some miracle grow instead. Then spray for disease, let that dry, then hit it with the bug spray. Should be fun! I hope to have loads and loads of blooms soon.

(I am very VERY popular around mothers day, the cheapskates. I always get people in here begging for them so they won't have to go buy flowers :/. I caught a woman from another department ROBBING my lavender rose bush THREE SEPARATE TIMES red handed. Her defense? "But they are just so pretty! And i don't want to grow my own!" She finally retired last year, so they may be safe. I stopped growing tomatoes out here a couple years ago because people (tomato weasels, i called them) would come and steal them, and neither I nor my coworkers got any.) I will never understand people who cannot simply ASK for something. They would rather skulk around and steal it like a weasel instead... It's not like a would have told them NO if they had simply asked. I feel violated when people do that. I know, that's a bit dramatic but it just burns my buds.....

Lucille, i looked up that rose. It is beautiful but since the doggies are NOSY, i wouldnt want them to hurt themselves on the thorns. Besides, while i love to fiddle with a rose, a climber might be too much for me. I LOVE looking at them, but the pruning and the hauling away........

We have some leftover fencing that we let the muscadines and scuppernongs run on. And I want to do cucumbers as well. Whether i do or not remains to be seen.

No planting here. The last snow pile is melting. Only the top layer of the ground is thawed. It will take a week of warmer weather to get the frost out of the ground.

Whatever is the case for your location, be a bit slow about putting tomatoes outdoors. Our garden tomatoes descend from tropical plants and damage starts at 38 F for most tomato varieties. One variety called 'Big Boy' did survive a 38 F night for me many years ago. If you have a tomato plant that is damaged by cold, its best to pull it out and start over with a new plant. The new plant will grow faster than the damaged one and produce better.

Like arcy, I'm waiting. We still have snow on the ground, also. I do have planting locations chosen for 1 tree and 1 shrub. Once the ground isn't frozen, I'll get the turf off and into the compost. Then I'll get the hole size marked out and wait for the correct weather. The rest of my spring planting will consist mostly of annuals and won't be until after "traditional" Memorial Day, as that is our last frost date.

Most of my cool season crops have been planted...42 lettuce, 76 leeks, 44 potatoes, ~150 bunching onions, ~120 bulb onions of 4 different types, 20 spinach, 2 10' rows of radishes planted a week apart. I'll sow more radishes each weekend for the next month. Broccoli is hardening off to plant sometime in the next week. Peppers, tomatoes, and eggplant are all growing under lights in my basement. Asparagus should start someing up in the next couple weeks. I counted 90 out of 95 fall planted garlics that came up and are growing well so far. No sign of the horseradish yet but it should show up about the same time as the asparagus.

No idea on where we are on the ornamentals as I leave that to SWMBO but I did see some new hosta shoots poking up yesterday. I'll probably get instructions on dividing some of the hostas in a few weeks.