That first venture of the gardening year when you make such a mess and uncover some little treasures but oh that Joie de Vie.
Despite my stiff joints and arthritis courtesy of a tick bite I was able to make a start in the garden.
So far it seems to have rained nearly every day since Christmas, so except for watering some of the plants in the greenhouse, this is the first time I could face doing some gardening. I didn't intend to garden, I just went to water the greenhouse and then realised it is Valentine's Day. I had forgotten I needed to prune the clematis. Margery Fish in her book We Made a Garden suggests Valentine's day as a good date to prune late flowering and Viticella type clematis.
Oh, you are way ahead of us here in Canada. It all looks so promising already!
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing like that first gardening. Nothing like it. I hope you're getting out there even more in March. My arthritis has been a booger this spring. Hugs from Oklahoma.~~Dee
ReplyDeleteHi Dee it is so very nice to hear from my old garden blogging friends back in the day of Blotanical. Sadly March has been constant rain so very little gardening possible but today has been wonderful except for my aching joints. Yes arthritis is such a dreadful condition and despite my treatment I am never properly rid of it so suspect mostly permanent damage, although re treatment always helps to improve symptoms even after all these years.
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