It’s January.  I’m missing my gardens.  I’m missing any gardens.  Off to our local gardening center I went today.  This is a thing I do – wander around, maybe buy a watch ’em grow garden, and maybe something additional.  I suspect, no I know, I am not unique in doing this.

Today I got both.  I could not resist.

The watch ’em grow garden

And a beautiful cyclamen

So fun!

I also bought a set of seed pods for when I start my daylily seeds.  Now I’m committed to that because I have all the materials.  I had started down the path of saving toilet paper and paper towel rolls to cut up as soil holders, like last year, but then I saw that the pods are ok for daylilies, so I’m going to try them.  This will be my first year of growing only daylily seedlings.  I had a bumper crop of ‘Just Plum Happy’ daylily seeds last fall, so I’m hoping to get something from those.  Plus a few from our other daylilies.   I’m also hoping this is the year I see flowers on the seedlings from the daylily seeds I planted out in the ground the past couple seasons.

And I’m playing again with the idea of trying to find a way to have daylilies up north.  I know!  How many times will I go back and forth on this?  It’s just that I dream of naturalizing them. I know, however, they are deer yummies, and our trailcams have lots of deer on them.  I have the two (failed hugelkulture) raised bed gardens up there from last year.  I may try a seedling or two in there – from the ‘Just Plum Happy’ abundance.  I could recycle some of my chicken wire from last year here to protect them.  I know – ugly!  We’ll see.  Lots of time to decide.