Thinking Green

Spring is on the way!  I really love wintertime, but this has been a hard winter with really consistent snows, and even I am ready for spring. In fact, I am a little obsessed with gardening right now. This happens every March or so. When the snow melts and I can see the actual dirt in my garden, I’m ready to get some dirt under my nails.

Since I can’t really do much outside at this point, I’m doing some “virtual gardening…” trying to make plans for different areas of the beds.  Here is a plan I came up with for the area on the north side of the house that I call my Irish garden. 

I have always wanted a little spot in the garden to mark Tom’s Irish heritage.  A couple of the plants in this garden have Irish names (like Bells of Ireland, the tall, green, spiky annual in the back, as well as some Irish moss in the right front corner).  Others, like the snowdrop anemones, grow wild in Ireland.  (I’d love to find a maidenhair fern at one of the local nurseries, since that also grows wild in Ireland.)  I’ll include some shamrocks as well, though I’ll pot them as I think they can take over the lawn if not contained. Mainly I just wanted lots of lush green foliage and some blue and purple flowers to set it off. 

There’s lots of work to do in this garden in springtime, but at least there’s a plan now!  Right now this only exists in Photoshop, but I’ll post pictures when it becomes a reality.