Appleton Blooms

We’ve been combatting the cutest pest you’d ever come across. Rabbits. So far, they’ve eaten all of our sunflowers that are supposed to be blooming now and are putting a dent in our zinnias. I feel like we’ve tried all the aromatics that we can think of. We’ve finally decided to just fence the area in. We have more seedlings started.

We didn’t think we’d get any blooms from our late winter planted ranunculus. We had a stretch of hot days that would typically make the corms go dormant. I’m so happy we didn’t give up on them. With a little shade cloth, and thankfully some cooler days we finally have some blooms. Our very first bloom, although tiny is beautiful. More are also coming in from our bigger bed. 💐

Pictured below are Mahogany Splendor Hibiscus. This is my first year growing them and I’m blown away. I had 100% germination and the roots on these plants are so robust. I potted them up into grow bags about 2-3 weeks ago and they took off. I can’t wait to get them in the ground. 🌱



Pics from johnnyseeds and Appleton Blooms

We had a big (to us) shipment come in that was ordered back in September of 2022. We ordered about 500 gladiolus corms from a family owned company called Fred Nagel & Sons. The picture below is of their pastel mix from their website. Gladiolus are beautiful and provide the perfect spike to a bouquet. We start planting these about 2 weeks before the last frost date, so they came just in time.

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Fall planted bachelors buttons seem to be the way to go. We’re even getting buds. Some other things coming along in the garden are the fall planted dusty miller, as well as tulips. I did a super small patch of about 100 tulips just to try them out and they’re starting to color up. Spring is on the way!