wow, wow, wow! That is fantastic! Thank you for sharing! Give me hope as I will finish my final planting today, Let the show begin!!!! And yes, it really does work!

That's like time-lapse photography! So cool!
And what an amazing transformation just from winter to spring!

I love love love the curving path layout. Wonderful design.

I really like that! Thanks for sharing.

I have 2 spots in my yard on a slope I want to create beds. I plan to use a lasagna style so I do not have to dig the sod up :) It will be my end of summer/fall project. It is nice to see how you filled yours with WS plants.

Karen

Impressive, token! Glad to know that you like wintersowing! :>)

token - what a difference! I love your photos and I really can appreciate your hard work...(remember, guys - we deal with CLAY!)...

Keep us up to date with more blooms - my Shastas are now blooming - that IS early, isn't it? I have to check my last year's pictures. BESusans are opening up today too! Must be all that wonderful rain.

Carrie

Thanks ya'll.

Carrie, I deal with clay AND stone. All those rocks have been dug from the potager area in the backyard. Yep, everyone of those stones that I use to create my edge came out of an area about 40' x 40' and not all of it was tilled. 18 wheelbarrows is what I recall loading and unloading. I did that over the course of about 3 weeks, a few a day.

Lasagna gardening is the only way I could have done this.

token - same here - my best "stones" lining a few part shade gardens in the woods came from me digging them out of my beds (years ago)... I am STILL finding rocks. I feel like one day I made discover some dino bones too! :0/

Carrie, I just checked my Shastas. They are budding white right now. I also have direct sown zinnias budding. My rudbeckia has been threatening to bloom for weeks now. I have had one bloom on a plant I started from seed last fall for several weeks. It looks so lonely. I hope the others catch up soon.

This coming weekend will be a great one. Low 80s, lots of sun after a week of rain.

Wow! I just bought a new memory card to use to take pictures of the garden kind of the same way-once a week. I'm looking forward to having a history of how it looks in my garden & where I may be able to cram in another plant next year!

What a nice job you've done, token. Your property is beautiful.

Karen

Thanks - it is so interesting to see the photos over time! Looks so nice and lush.

Is the path grass? Wide enough to mow with a mower? Asking cause we recently made a lasanga bed in a patch of lawn adjacent to another established bed and of course the strip in between them is still lawn. I thought we would keep it and mow it, but hubby is saying it's going to be a pain to mow and wants to cover it in chips.

Jessew, My plan is to be able to identify plants this winter after they've died down using pictures. I take lots of closeups that are for my records, sometimes every day. LOL.

Thanks Karen. I've got lots of problems that I see, but when viewed as a whole, I'm very happy with what wintersowing has given me.

Nan, yes, the grass paths are wide enough for a mower. When I laid them out, I measured 3' between them. I use a push mower. It only takes about 20 minutes to mow my entire yard. The backyard is the largest area and it's getting smaller this summer. ;)

token - Shastas (most of them) are up and flowered here; Two BESusans opened up yesterday (amongst the hundreds I have); Echinacea (second year) opened yesterday - (so fun to see perennials bloom their second year - yay! free plants);

Let's see what else:

Oh, yes, my Tall Zinnias are just about to open - so exciting to see them this year. My Magellans and Profusions will not fully bloom until much later - they are showing some buds but the mound is still growing...

I will have to go out this morning and see what else - oh yes, Daylilies (the reds so far) are blooming and Stellas are still looking good - One ditch daylily bloomed yesterday and they look great with dark purple Amaranthus.

So fun!

Carrie

I have white buds on my shastas. I have a couple of ruds that will bloom today IF the sun stays out long enough. My zinnias, first time grower, are budding with red and orange. The red spiders have been "blooming" for a couple weeks. I have coreopsis full moon about to pop. I've had a single deformed echinacea bloom for a couple days. The ditch lilies have been blooming since last week. And I have a 3" long datura bud that is making some big promises. Knola black morning glory has been blooming for a couple weeks too. Heavenly blue has been very disappointing with its growth.

My echinacea...must have self-sown last year cause I know I dug up the two plants I had. Got lots of self-sown coneflowers in that area, actually. Looks nice with the Virginia stock that is somehow hanging on.

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Don't talk about slugs. With all this rain, it's inevitable.

Hey carrie, save me some amaranthus seeds, will you? Mine germinated, but one by one died off. I think they got too wet where I had planted them. :)

token - better idea - why wait until mine set seeds, come to our house and take my reseeds (I still have some left - sorry I pulled so many) - Actually, I DO HAVE A LOT... You would have to bring pots with dirt and quickly pot them up and hurry home to plant them and then cover them for a few days - but then after that they should be fine.

We are close... let me know - glad to have you!

Carrie

Let me check my schedule. Chances are, I'll be in Mint Hill the first week of June so I will certainly let you know. My work hours are normally 12-8 or 10-6. You're near weddington?

In Weddington - right off 84

Sounds good. I'll send you an email early next week. I have the weekend off, but will be out of town. Thanks!

Okay - hey, this rain is really growing those reseeds!

Next week is good!

Carrie

Need any butterfly bushes? Sweetshrub? Dogwoods? I have lots of each.

Oh thanks, token - I do have one bbush, but ONLY and I say ONLY if you have totally way more than you can handle, I would take one - but that is ONLY if you can spare it - believe me.

Did you do melampodiums this year? If not, I have some good reseeds that should be okay - The amaranthus reseed transplants can droop a good bit (some actually have holes in the leaves - sorry - bad bug issue here) but i do have seeds also, so while you
can take some reseeds, you also will have a packet of whatever I have leftover - (which isn't much, but enough to grow several next year if my reseeds don't survive). I also have Perilla reseeds - again, hope they survive the transplant - The smaller perillas will do much better than the larger reseeds.

See you next week!

Carrie

I've got 37 butterfly bushes potted up. Some have more than one. I dumped the lasagna pan container in the ground and told it good luck. Didn't even dig a hole. There's about 200 still in there growing.

I had two melampodiums sprout from a purchased package.

Is perilla the same as Persian Shield? Looks similar.

Perilla is a deep, dark purple - not as pretty as the Persian Shield. It's good around tomatoes (I don't do veggies - only sugar snap peas and lettuce)... but I did read they are good near tomatoes... I like them with ditch daylilies - deep purple with orange...

Bring some pots with some soil to pot up the melas - I have enough for you to take home and some even have blooms already.

If you either come really early in the morning or later in the evening, it's probably the best time to transplant - whatta ya think?

Carrie

BEAUTIFUL!! Great job token!!

PLEASE save some seeds for trading:))

I love the time lapse photography!! Makes the aches and pains all worth it:))