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Post by stevil on Mar 11, 2010 6:57:44 GMT -5
Rain for two days after 3 months of sub-zero C temperatures and practically all the snow has gone and I can see that at least some plants have made it...
Trillium: mmm, tasty...
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Post by Penny on Mar 11, 2010 7:01:29 GMT -5
Last night after supper, i could smell a skunk somewhere near by, so thats a good sign, and my neighbor swears she was a Robin yesturday too.
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Post by ottawagardener on Mar 11, 2010 7:58:40 GMT -5
We have been having cold nights but the days are very mild and now a good percentage of the snow is gone. They're calling for rain this weekend. I see many plants peeping out of the snow! No trilliums yet though  |
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Post by plantsnobin on Mar 11, 2010 8:19:39 GMT -5
Trilliums tasty?  ? I could never bring myself to eat one. I guess they are more plentiful in other places. Yesterday was just beautiful here, today it is raining. I went about 2 1/2 hours to check out a nursery, took my daughter and 8 month old grandson. Thought it would be a bad idea really, but he was a perfect boy all day! He loved walking around the nursery and through the garden. Yesterday was abouit 73F, this morning it is already 54. Crocus, cyclamen, johnny jump ups, hellebores and that tiny little veronica weed thing are all blooming. Birds are happily singing, seeds in greenhouse are germinating like crazy, life is good. Hope spring comes soon for everyone, have a great day. |
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Post by cornishwoman on Mar 11, 2010 8:35:11 GMT -5
Robertb, Well I'm not rightly sure,but I would say its the Luteum Trillium,its flower is very pale yellow and some times the flower looks almost pale green but that could be the light in the wood as its quite dark even in summer,real heavy canopy of trees up there.I have a native Tennessee wild flower book,the description and photo match this trillium, that's how I'm guessing its the Luteum.Every spring I think about stealing just one but I know it wont survive in my garden seeing as there is no shade areas,besides they look so good just where they are,to tell the truth its not so much the flower I like ,its the pattern on the leaf,each little plant seems to produce a different pattern,then come summer the colour in the pattern fades away,notice they don't seem to multiply much either. So which part do you eat?
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Post by cornishwoman on Mar 11, 2010 8:50:35 GMT -5
 we are not alone in wishing for spring |
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Post by steveont on Mar 11, 2010 9:50:03 GMT -5
We have been having cold nights but the days are very mild and now a good percentage of the snow is gone. They're calling for rain this weekend. I see many plants peeping out of the snow! No trilliums yet though i hope that the sap run is great this year!  was cool enough last night but today seems good! frost is coming out well too!! still a roller coaster ride out on the roads though. |
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Post by robertb on Mar 11, 2010 11:02:07 GMT -5
Robertb, Well I'm not rightly sure,but I would say its the Luteum Trillium,its flower is very pale yellow and some times the flower looks almost pale green but that could be the light in the wood as its quite dark even in summer,real heavy canopy of trees up there.I have a native Tennessee wild flower book,the description and photo match this trillium, that's how I'm guessing its the Luteum.Every spring I think about stealing just one but I know it wont survive in my garden seeing as there is no shade areas,besides they look so good just where they are,to tell the truth its not so much the flower I like ,its the pattern on the leaf,each little plant seems to produce a different pattern,then come summer the colour in the pattern fades away,notice they don't seem to multiply much either. So which part do you eat? A lot of Trilliums can produce yellow flowers; the classification is a bit of a mess. But if the whole plant fits the description of Luteum, there's a good chance that's what it is. I don't know what bit you eat; they're quite precious in the UK. I have a lot of kurabayashii, at least I think that's what it is, which is a large purple one from the eastern USA. Then I participate in an annual seed exchange, and plant a few more every year. They come up after 18 months or more if you get reasonably fresh seed. |
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Post by Alan on Mar 12, 2010 17:36:51 GMT -5
It is most certainly spring and I am super busy. Earlier this week I got foodpoisoning or some type of virus which got me down for a couple of days. I've been trying to catch up all week which leaves little to no time to post on our lovely little board.
This past week I've started several thousand tomato, pepper, and eggplant seedlings. Potted up a ton of nursery stock, started some protected nursery rows outside. Another rabbit kindled, I'm selling some from the two previous litters, selling turkey eggs, trying to find turkey eggs, organizing the seed collection, got two incubators full of eggs, getting ready to start grafting for the season. Theres a brooder full of turkeys, guineas, and chickens......so very much to do.
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Post by klorentz on Mar 12, 2010 18:02:56 GMT -5
Gearing up for starting the first of our tomato and pepper seeds. The dilemma is which varieties to start first.But anyway Went outside for a bit and did not need a jacket! Wet muddy but much warmer. Noted that buds on lilacs are starting to swell.
Kevin
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Post by moonlilyhead on Mar 12, 2010 22:21:04 GMT -5
The usual early spring bloomers are well on their way here, which is awesome. We were in the 70s the other day. I'm sure, as soon as we put out our warm weather plants, we'll have one last hard frost. Happens every year! I'll have the pile of old sheets ready, though. |
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Post by ottawagardener on Mar 13, 2010 17:29:09 GMT -5
I was riding around the country and saw trees tapped in the old fasioned way by homesteaders. My kids also have had more than one maple syrup taffee on a stick treat. Yummy.
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Post by cornishwoman on Mar 15, 2010 15:32:53 GMT -5
 At last things are starting to wake up in my garden. Checked on my orange mint,it survived,for some reason I felt it wouldn't,grew it up last spring and it was a fragile wee thing all summer long,think I was able to get just a few tiny leaves to dry.Soft wood cutting I did last fall are showing growth,lilac,orange blossom,and hydrangea,I pleased as they are promised to people.Windowsill peppers and second round of toms are all doing good,just need the last frost date to pass. |
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Post by cornishwoman on Mar 15, 2010 15:37:28 GMT -5
windowsill peppers and second round of toms ,2 lavender cuttings .  |
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Post by Penny on Mar 16, 2010 12:19:47 GMT -5
More snow has melted and its getting warmer, and more birds too, i heave heard again that more neighbors have seen the Robins, but i havent yet.
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? I could never bring myself to eat one. I guess they are more plentiful in other places. Yesterday was just beautiful here, today it is raining. I went about 2 1/2 hours to check out a nursery, took my daughter and 8 month old grandson. Thought it would be a bad idea really, but he was a perfect boy all day! He loved walking around the nursery and through the garden. Yesterday was abouit 73F, this morning it is already 54. Crocus, cyclamen, johnny jump ups, hellebores and that tiny little veronica weed thing are all blooming. Birds are happily singing, seeds in greenhouse are germinating like crazy, life is good. Hope spring comes soon for everyone, have a great day.
was cool enough last night but today seems good! frost is coming out well too!! still a roller coaster ride out on the roads though.
