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• Why Visit the Connecticut Flower and Garden Show?:
  • The Sage Butterfly: I like garden shows for all those same reasons. I learn so much and am always inspired. I look forward to seeing your photos...
  • joenesgarden: Debbie, I've wondered the same. I know I'm gearing up for an early spring. Hope tohave some photos to share from the show.
  • Debbie/GardenofPossibilities: Joene, Enjoy the show. I wonder if this season's non-winter will mean a stronger turnout for the show since people are already thinking about spring and gardening. Hope so.
  • joenesgarden: Valerie, Sorry I will miss seeing you at the Master Gardener's booth ... I have other obligations on Saturday. Hope you get a lot of questions and soil samples to test.
  • Valerie: I agree Joene! I am SO looking forward to it. I remember one year that the smell of all the mulches was so intoxicating. They had multiple types in big barrels and I just stuck my hands in. It felt so good to touch something earthy..... I hope you have...
• Take a Virtual Garden Tour:
  • joenesgarden: Lee, the daffs poking up are planted near hardsacpe that absorbs and holds solar warmth or next to the foundation of the house. Those planted in other locations are still tucked underground. I'm not sure I'll ever reach the point of having too much moss, but I'm sure I can find some to share...
  • Lee May: Nice moss, Joene. If you have too much, I'll take some off your hands. We live in the same town, but we're in different micro climates, as you have daffs out of the ground, and I don't. Oh, well, early or late, I'll take 'em.
  • joenesgarden: Thank you, Jean. Is your pieris Dorothy Wyckoff? The flower pods on mine appear more maroon in the photo but in person they are more purple ... a striking color contrast to all else in the garden right now. It's tough to get used to forsythia and lamium blooming in February, but enjoy.