Garden

[sophiesofers]

@Love my grandkids    I bet Henrietta was beautiful!  I hope she and her friends return too.  

[Meowingkitty]

Please no. Spring is a whopping 2 weeks in Arizona before the temps creep to 100-120 degrees. We look forward to cool weather and want it to last as long as it can. I also like the early darkness. Don't need it to be daylight till 9 o'clock.

[Carmie]

I love spring and can hardly wait for it.

Right now we are enjoying a warm winter.  I will take it, but I know January and February are going to be cold.  I can handle that.

I brought in most of my summer blooms in pots and they look beautiful.  i hope I can keep them going until the weather gets warm enough to set them out again.

[Kachina624]

Another 95 days and another hot, hot summer will probably rage.  I dread it like the plague.  Just look how warm the winter has been most places so far. 

[gardenman]

I'm done with winter by the end of the first week of November. I don't like the cold weather. I'm never truly warm in the fall/winter. It takes until about May before I feel warm again. The good news is spring is coming fast.

I tend to divide the year into two seasons. The warming up and cooling down seasons. We're most of the way through the cooling down season. Our average daily temps bottom out around January 21st then they start to slowly climb. (That's the start of the warming up season.) No matter how cold and miserable it gets after January 21st, I know it's starting to get warmer. The warming up season lasts until July 21st when the average temps peak and then start to slowly decline. (That's the cooling down season.) 

We're about five weeks from the temps bottoming out and then starting their long slow climb. Around then the first of my most sheltered daffodils should start poking their heads up out of the ground. My hardiest daylilies will start to send out a few new shoots. I'll have my seed orders for the new gardening season and will be biding my time to start the new seeds. February tends to be our snowiest month, but around mid-March spring really starts to pop.

[BirkiLady]

@gardenman  You made my day! Thanks for the ray of sunshine when so many reacted with gloom and doom on this thread. LOL

I live in Lincoln, Nebraska. We had 95-113 mph windstorms Wednesday afternoon (which had the newscasters predicting possible tornado conditions, of course), massive dark clouds, and rains. What did I do? Went into my garage and finally removed my calla lillies from their patio pots! It was the ideal time to do so. How those tubers have grown in one year!

They are now out of the dry dirt and safely stored in the furnace room (downstairs) waiting to be replanted in 2022. 

After the wind hawled and the rain stopped, I had large (over 6' long) tree branches from the clump of Birch trees to drag toward the curb for the trash collectors to pick up today. Hope they'll take such large tree limbs since I don't have a saw to cut them up! 

Like you, I'm busy getting my plants and shrubs ready for next year. Not a fan of cold weather either. I live in Nebraska because my son, DIL and GS live here - and at my age, why would I want to leave?   

[gardenman]

@BirkiLady 

One of my favorite YouTubers (Laura Wilson of Laura Farms) is in Nebraska, so I get to see Nebraska weather through her videos. NJ is plenty cold for me.

[BirkiLady]

@gardenman  Yea! She's fun to watch. Glad you enjoy a Nebraskan who knows her gardening. (Most of us in this State, even City kids like me, have a love of gardening!) 

Bet you enjoyed Mary Nelson while she was on QVC. She and her husband returned to Omaha after she had tried hosting and didn't like it as well as she thought she would. 

She's a real dynamo who is a DIYer. Her favorite things are power tools; she can build anything! They don't hire it done, Mary does it - herself. Plus, she's also working for one of the local TV stations. She's smart, very pretty and has spunk!  

Her husband works with golf pros and Mary is often tagging along on his trips. Sometimes she even caddies! She's never a diva - too ambitious! Didn't fit in with the QVC females. LOL Nebraskan's are delighted to have her back!

BTW: I still have pots of petunas on my front patio in this below zero weather!  They are stunning. 

[stevieb]

I'm in no hurry. We get enough warm weather around here without looking forward to more. I love fall and, unless it gets fierce, which it rarely does, I like winter.

[laluzdelmundo]

@Meowingkitty  My thoughts exactly. I'm a Valley of the Sun hostage not experiencing Stockholm syndrome--no bonding or positive feelings for my captor.

Even the word, "Spring," can depress me. And the thought of "Summer" here is horrifying.

When my mind travels to my "happy place," typically there is snow.