Fibermania

Welcoming Spring!

I am rather happy to see the end of winter, and eager to get going in the garden. This time I am not going to plant tender things too early, only to have to cover them and pray they won't get frozen by freaky late April snows. I mean it. Really.
So I just bought some pansies which manage to live with snow and freezing temps and laugh them off.  But mostly I am buying bags and bags of dirt. Nothing like a cleaned up bed covered with a new layer of composted manure to cheer up a gal.




And these are next to clean up. The center bed was full of perennials, but no longer. The STINKIN'  VOLES
have eaten away my 18 hostas, 15 Autumn Joy Sedum, some hardy geraniums, coreopsis, delphiniums, asters and 24 Stargazer Lily bulbs. The only remaining plants are two hydrangeas, which never bloom, and a good looking shasta daisy. Hrumph.
 The Eating Machine. Tinier than a mouse and more destructive than a bulldozer in the garden.
The black pots down in front have hosta in them, and I wonder if  know I am nuts to plant them here again. One pot had the plant removed entirely by those nasty critters.

But what is a gardener if not full of hope in the Spring? I'll clean up the old dead stuff, and add another layer of dirt and consider perhaps tossing just a few seeds over the bed instead of spending good money for plants which will only fatten the wily voles.
I don't have and do need some poppies
 calendulas,  and foxgloves .
A girl can dream. Sigh.

PS I just ordered this stuff...we'll see if it works. (the granular stuff...makes the deer stay away too)