Seed Catalogs
This is the time of year that the seed catalogs arrive in the mail. It is so fun to browse through them and try to decide what I want to grow the following year. In Arizona I have the problem of having two growing seasons, late winter to early summer and late summer to winter. I have to decide what I want to start now for spring and what I want to plant in the fall. I guess I could wait and buy seed in the summer, but the cool weather plants are all so delicious that I always want to plant something in the spring just to see how it will do.
I am in the process of trying to do a little landscaping as well. When we moved in we had a lot full of lawn with four trees. Three citrus trees, and an ornamental mulberry. I’ve cleaned up the area under the mulberry, and am trying to plant flowers there. I also cut out a flowerbed in the front yard where I could plant annuals. I still haven’t done much with that. I put a few seeds out and it is full of painted daisies. I need to do some formal landscaping with that. The flowers are so beautiful in the catalogs as well. I wish I could just rip all the bermuda grass out and plant flowerbeds. Maybe I’ll do that someday. I wonder how Kentucky Bluegrass would do here. Has anyone tried it? It is supposed to withstand heat and drought fairly well, and it shouldn’t take over the yard the way bermuda does. We also added an ash tree in the front yard. It looks silly right now, it is still a sapling, about 4 feet tall and about 1/3 inch in diameter. With all the leaves off right now it looks like a small stick coming out of the ground, but in a few years it will be a large tree.
Beautifying the yard is an exciting process. Maybe I’ll get some seeds started this Christmas break. Starting seeds is one of the most rewarding experience. From the tiny seed comes a small seedling that grows quickly. It quickly will be hundreds of times larger than the small seed it started from. It is a very exciting prospect. I think it is a wonderful experience, that really helps to understand Alma 32. Hopefully my children will enjoy it as much as I always have.
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I like the grass! You’re going to have to fight me before you rip it all out!! Or else convince me with REALLY life-like illustrations of what it would look like!!