Sunnybrook Gardens Ltd Blog — Gardening

  So excited for the beautiful Easter weekend weather! Sunrise service is one of my favorite things and that's saying something since I am not a morning person by nature! Perhaps the best surprise this weekend was hearing my husband tell me we could rototill the gardens!!  I've been trying really hard not to ask on a daily basis if it was dry enough yet! (Is it dry enough now? What about tonight? When do you think it will be ready?)  But the time was finally here THIS WEEKEND and Saturday evening we (he on the tractor and I happily...

It's mid-March and I'm thinking that Punxsutawney Phil and Buckeye Chuck the groundhogs were right... after a refreshing intermission, winter has returned!  With such a mild winter, I really won't complain (too much!) about a delayed spring and a bunch of snow covering up the flowers that were starting to pop up!  Thankfully they weren't farther along so no real damage done.  March snowstorms are easier to take since you know they will be more or less short lived as compared to the more hopeless and unending snow in January and the just plain mean snow that sometimes comes as...

Cold rain and snow and a generous measure of wind to bring in March like a lion are the forecast for today and more this week in Ohio!  Thankfully, the mail brought more seeds for the vegetable, herb and cut flower gardens so it makes the blustery weather seem more bearable!  Ah garden therapy!  Planning for summer blooms in the remaining cold days of winter is a joyful thing to do!   I was quite excited to receive those beautiful packets of possibilities and hurried to get out my earlier orders so I could spread them all out on the...

Visions of fresh cut herb and flower bouquets for the upcoming season are filling my thoughts these days!   January usually seems pretty long here in Ohio... and gray... and cold... and snowy... and well, you get the idea!  I keep trying to convince myself that I should enjoy winter since there aren't bunches of weeds to pull or garden work to do; just time for all of it (and me) to rest a bit.  And in some sense, I guess that is rather nice, but absence makes the heart grow fonder as the saying goes, so winter becomes the time...

September always means not just back to school, but time to clean up the daylilies and set out the new divisions for the sale bed for next year.  And with the kids back in school, the four-footed kids and I get to work in the garden ... but are they hard at work, or hardly working?!  Either way, my Gardening Crew is great company while we clean up and divide daylilies for the sale bed for next year!  They love being outside and lounging in the shade of the tractor and garden cart; now if only I could teach them to...