Spring time & greenhouse clean up!

Morning coffee in your garden, is there anything better? Now sitting here on the first sunny morning of 57 degrees F ( 14 + grader!) & the birds are singing their flirty spring serenades and some bees are buzzing in my Japanese cherry tree, filled of early pink tender flowers.

Looking forward to add a few new trees into the garden this spring.

Finally we are here, when we can put our fingers in the soil again, sow those 100s of seeds we bought a month or two ago, and start to plan how we are going to fit them in our gardens! This year will be a year of raised beds and containers here at home. Some new stonescape has been installed and now I need to figure out how to get my garden to function best. I love the time when I can open the door to the greenhouse and empty it out and start from scratch, washing out dried leaves, some eaten nut shells the mice left behind, and the sawdust from my bumblebees that likes to drill into my wood shelving. We all co-exist in there, like a happy family on different schedules! Now it’s MY time to get back in there.

I am always waiting eagerly for the first Geraniums of the season. Geraniums are one of my favorite flowers, and I will now be able to save them over the winter months thanks to my new studio. Already ordered a few from one of my hidden greenhouse gem in Connecticut, Logee’s Greenhouses in Danielson.

Waiting for roots…..making more Geraniums.

Bought a few Cowslip plants, in Sweden we call them Gullviva, and they make me so happy, with their warm yellow little flowers. One will go in my front garden full of bulb plants, my collection of Frittelarias. But I think one will be here in the back somewhere, hopefully thriving and spreading. Still remembering early spring back home in Vallingby, where we would go to an abandoned old villa, with a wild garden, and we found Gullvivor ( Primula Veris) that we secretly picked and brought home. The joy of those tender first flowers blooming after a long winter. We had a long & cold winter here in Connecticut this year, deepfreeze for weeks in a row. Now that is all behind us, and a new season in the garden is born. Time for another cup of coffee!