When the calendar flips to March my thoughts turn to gardening. Dreaming of beautiful blooms and lucious veggies I peruse garden books and magazines for new ideas and designs.
Victoria Magazine
Truth be told, I love the IDEA of gardening more than the actual act. Thoughts of digging in the warm summer dirt sounds so romantic in March. But somehow these imaginations lose their appeal in August when oppressive heat and thick tangles of weeds are the reality! There is nothing too romantic about sweat dripping off my nose and green stained fingers!
Country Home
But because it is March and my head is full of horticultural thoughts I am making big plans! More flowering trees, a perenial border expansion and a new layout for the vegetable garden.
Fine Gardening
This year my heart set on a copper roofed Martin house in the herb garden and architectural elements stategically placed for interest in the vegetable garden. Can you picture slender green beans on lush vines climbing up a big teepee trellis?
Horticulture Magazine
I have just discovered a couple of helpful and fun web-sites that allow you to virtually plan a garden- Vegetable Gardening On-Line and BHG Plan A Garden. These are very user friendly tools with many informative features to help plan and grow a beautiful garden.
Are you dreaming, schemeing or planning your summer garden yet?
Oooh, how gorgeous. Come on, spring! :-)
ReplyDeleteThose are gorgeous and inspiring pictures, Yvonne. My husband has been pouring over Gurney's catalog for awhile now. He is the veggie gardener of the family and I am the flower gardener. We plant quite a bit, but he always reminds me that I have 95% of the house, so the garden is his! :)
ReplyDeleteoh, those pictures are to die for! I'm excited that we will have a small veggie garden for the first time in this house
ReplyDeletexoxo Pattie
Beautiful pictures! I just started planting potted herbs last summer and now I'm itching to do more, and add a small veggie garden. Thanks for sharing those links! I'm going to check those out.
ReplyDeleteI agree about the fun is in the planning. Lucky for me, my husband loves the outdoor work of it and I love picking out all the pretty things. I'm just ready for anything that blooms!
ReplyDeleteI am scheming! Thanks for sharing those photos, I will be planting peas this year and that teepee would look so lovely in the area I have, I may just try it. And those links look helpful, I have no imagination when it comes to gardening so every little bit helps. And thanks for your adorable comments on my blog they always make me smile!
ReplyDeletethanks for posting the info links- we are planning our first veggie/cutting garden this year. trying to decide what to climb my teepee this year- morning glories or moonflower. good luck with your garden- please post your progress.
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