Today, March
12, is National Plant A Flower Day. While its history is somewhat blurry, I’ll
take any day that celebrates flower planting.
Perhaps I
would not plant any flowers, such as annuals, just yet here in the Northern
Panhandle of West Virginia. The temps outside this week will be in the low to
mid 60’s, for which I’m so grateful! But being only mid-March, we still can get
some freezing killing cold that will destroy anything planted outside. Of course, we can plant perennials now, but I
still think I’ll wait a few weeks.
Pansies are an annual, or biennial, that you might try planting.
Right this minute they look like no life
is ready to emerge, but I have hope. I've seen some look like this, and low and behold, fresh green emerges from the centers when temps get warm on a regular basis. I am excited by the way, how healthy and green my rhododendron I planted last Fall is!
March’s birthday flower is the daffodil and hopefully, you have planted these bulbs last Fall, and may be seeing clumps of fresh green leaves popping up!
I have this lone wolf clump coming up alongside my neighbor' house and right outside my kitchen door! They'll never see them, only because they don't come around this way - but I will enjoy them for sure!
So today may
not be the best day to plant flowers but it’s a GREAT day for thinking about
it, for planting seeds and for designing your garden, which is exactly what I
plan on doing.
Do you plant
anything in early Spring?
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