Streetwise Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 Central Vermont seems to be climate zone 8, and hardiness 4b. Am I reading this correctly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick_G Posted March 4, 2022 Author Share Posted March 4, 2022 It looks like you have several zones but most of the lake Champlain area is 5a-4b. It’s just a guideline because microclimates can lengthen or shorten your season. An open lot on a south facing hill will warm up much faster than a shaded north facing lot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torrey Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 We live in the high desert, so it will probably snow for Easter this year... otherwise it will snow for Beltane😏 We had A/C on today, and this weekend we have to worry about pipes freezing again. Mother Nature hit menopause😂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JettsPapa Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 On 3/3/2022 at 7:17 PM, PineSong said: Zone 6b, here, I have the first snowdrops blooming right now. I've ordered some plants and have my shopping list planned, but no room for indoor lights and early starting because FISH are taking up the space where I started my dahlias last year. I will live vicariously thought you, @Patrick_G. The year I grew white coneflowers from seed was one of my happiest garden outcomes ever. I hope you'll have the same luck with yours. Just inside the southern edge of 8b here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 First flowers of the season! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanked Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 Here in SW OH. I'm officially in 6a Everything is brown except for the moss, pond algae, spring weeds and the premature Easter flowers starting to poke through like they do every year. It is a long running joke that we can do 3 seasons in the same day. This weekend we will do all 4 with the temperature expected to swing between 26-75 degrees. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanked Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 On 3/5/2022 at 11:22 AM, Tanked said: It is a long running joke that we can do 3 seasons in the same day. This weekend we will do all 4 with the temperature expected to swing between 26-75 degrees. Well, we officially hit 76 degrees and expect "several inches" of snow later this week. The ground huggers began blooming, the daffodils began to break buds, and the wind proceeded to clear most of last years plant debris from the gardens for me. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick_G Posted March 29, 2022 Author Share Posted March 29, 2022 It’s been a cool, cloudy spring so the growing season is off to a slow start but we have a few things blooming. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 Bearded Iris are up and running: 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 My Rhododendron I planted last year is coming in. We also planted some Columbine. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 Peonies opened today: 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Patrick_G Posted May 16, 2022 Author Share Posted May 16, 2022 We are having a La Nina year here in the PNW. That means it's been generally colder than normal with lots of cloudy days. To make it worse the very cold winter seems to have killed a lot of my plants or at least did them damage. It's hard to get motivated, but I'm slowly making progress. Hopefully I'll have some pics at some point. 😀 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 This is my first year with our own house, so I'm very very new to gardening. I've mostly just been trying to weed the beds that are already there. But today we made a new bed! I've got 12 different native plants that are beneficial for pollinators. The white tube on the left is for an attempt at in ground worm composting. We'll see how it goes. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick_G Posted May 16, 2022 Author Share Posted May 16, 2022 @Katherine, congrats on the house! Your bed looks good, do you remember what type if plants they are? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 On 5/15/2022 at 8:31 PM, Patrick_G said: @Katherine, congrats on the house! Your bed looks good, do you remember what type if plants they are? Back row, left to right: Butterfly Milkweed Prairie Phlox Side-Oats Grama Anise Hyssop Little Bluestem Lance-Leaf Coreopsis Front row, left to right: Wild Petunia Blue Grama Black-eyed Susan Aromatic Aster Missouri Goldenrod Whorled Milkweed They all came together and I tried to plant roughly by height so the taller ones will be to the right and the back, but the info sheet gave a 2 foot range for some of them so I'm not sure how well I managed. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 On 5/15/2022 at 9:51 PM, Katherine said: They all came together and I tried to plant roughly by height so the taller ones will be to the right and the back, but the info sheet gave a 2 foot range for some of them so I'm not sure how well I managed. Moving stuff around once you’re familiar with it is half the fun! You’re off to a good start. I moved to my house a month before lockdown so this is the third spring for my “new” beds. I put in a bunch of natives and I’m pretty excited to see how they do this year. I hope you have as much fun as I do 🙂 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 (edited) On 5/15/2022 at 10:59 PM, PineSong said: Moving stuff around once you’re familiar with it is half the fun! You’re off to a good start. I moved to my house a month before lockdown so this is the third spring for my “new” beds. I put in a bunch of natives and I’m pretty excited to see how they do this year. I hope you have as much fun as I do 🙂 I've been told the third year is when they really explode in growth, at least for the ones in my area. I also want to replace most of what's in the other beds with natives, but that's going to take me quite a while. Edited May 16, 2022 by Katherine 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 On 5/16/2022 at 8:28 AM, Katherine said: I've been told the third year is when they really explode in growth, at least for the ones in my area. I also want to replace most of what's in the other beds with natives, but that's going to take me quite a while. Yes, sleep, creep, and leap--and I've put some shrubs on notice that if they don't LEAP this year, they will be removed. They better dig in or they'll be dug out! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 On 5/13/2022 at 5:35 PM, Guppysnail said: Guppysnail, I’m starting to suspect pink is one of your favorite colors! Beautiful! I’ve never been able to grow bleeding hearts and I love them! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 On 5/16/2022 at 10:26 PM, PineSong said: Guppysnail, I’m starting to suspect pink is one of your favorite colors! Beautiful! I’ve never been able to grow bleeding hearts and I love them! ORD thanks. Actually these are my only pink. Most of mine are maroon, peach, and red. It just worked out my only ones flowering right now are pink and purple. The key to bleeding hearts is mostly shade/indirect sun with cooler more gentle morning sun. This one is under my deck and gets mostly indirect sun/shade and a few direct hours in the gentle morning. I have another one I planted at the same time that is half the size of this monster (3-4ft round) but gets it’s few hours in harsher late afternoon sun. The smaller one dies off sooner each year as well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Burke Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 Our garden is in a transition right now. But here’s a little taste of what is going on. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JettsPapa Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 On 5/20/2022 at 10:48 PM, Ken Burke said: Our garden is in a transition right now. But here’s a little taste of what is going on. Those are beautiful hostas. I wish I could grow them, but they don't like my climate (hot at night, hotter during the day, and humid all the time). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Burke Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Got these as I was leaving this am 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 Wow, @Ken Burke, I can't believe your gladiolus are already blooming. Mine are just about 7" tall right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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