My clematis vines! This will be their third season in my garden so I'm expecting them to leap! I also can't wait to shop for more clematis.

mxk3- I'm excite for you. Sounds like an exciting year compared to just thinking about all the work which needs to be done, seeing the payoff is a complete plus!

Right now I'm just looking forward to spring!

...and a few hundred plants of course :)

and some new magnolias which I don't have room for

The clematis are high on my list also. They’ve been SO slow but are in their third year too, at least most of them. Look much better this season than last so I have a tone of hope they will be a bit more “extravagant“ this year!

I always look forward to my giant red trillium. I have lugged it around to multiple gardens, including a period of time when the entire chunk resided at a friend's after I sold my house and garden. Multiple shoots are appearing above ground so it won't be long now :-)

Otherwise, it is just a matter of enjoying some maturing and substance of what is a relatively 'new' garden....only in its 4th season.

I'm looking forward to my daylilies. For the first 5 years they were shaded until 2 PM due to a very large 60 year old maple. The tree was removed in Sept. due to rot. So hoping the blooms can be more abundant and the fans multiply.

Once the trumpet vine and silver lace vine get going you won't need anything else!

Faith -- that is so cool Wow!

I have some third year trees and shrubs this year also. Since it is literally a leap year, I have my fingers crossed.

I'm not sure. I planted in heaps of new stuff last year, and some stuff is finally coming into lush growth this year. I guess looking forward to everything coming up this year, I hope.

Lol!! The 3 year "sleep, creep and leap" scenario does not really apply to woody plants (trees and shrubs). They can take much long than 3 growing seasons to develop and come into their own!

I'm looking forward to my front bed that I started reworking the fall before last. I changed directions to some extent. I had lilies that were overcrowded that it was time to dig up and replant. I took that opportunity to buy a few more varieties and added those. I added three shrubs in a bed that previously was all perennials and grasses. Two Dwarf Hydrangea Little Lime and a dwarf Hibiscus. I added three new rose bushes last spring, so this will be their second year. I kept the edges of the bed about the same, with grasses and chrysanthemums and a couple of asters. Two falls ago I added more spring bulbs that looked sparse in their first year last spring. Everything looked a little sparse last year, but promising.

I'm looking forward to it because it will require the least amount of work for the biggest bang this year. There are plenty of spots that need a lot more work that I'm not particularly looking forward to. [g]

I'm looking forward to our 3 clusters of "Brownie Points" Baptisia that we planted last year. The flowers were beautiful and the foliage lasted long into the fall before we cut them back. I hear that they are very hardy....I hope that is true.

I am looking forward to starting a complete conversion of my newly purchased 2.3 acres into wildlife/pollinator habitat. I have about 70 pots of wintersown native perennials outside, and I just placed an order for $350 worth of native shrubs and trees. I will be embellishing the perennial seedlings with annual zinnias, tithonia, calendula, sunflowers and allysum this season. But, I first need to create the beds and put up fencing to protect against deer/rabbit damage. And even that has to wait until the snow melts and the ground thaws. So, I am itching for spring.

Ok, well now I’M waiting for Faith’s living tunnel. That is gonna be wonderful!!!!

I created a large sun bed last fall and now I have to plant it! Looking forward to adding sun hostas and some other perennI also.

P.s. the tree has been moved out into the bed.

It's irony, I know, but it's leap year! You know, sleep, creep, leap... I've finally had some plants in the ground long enough, it may finally look like a real garden. I didn't get to really get to work until the beginning of 2017, even though I'd been there since the end of 2015. It's getting there. Finally!!!! *I've gardened many other places, for a long time. This is a new to me house. 101 years old, but it had no garden.

Rob,

Sounds like a great project. It is fun to see plants start to reach their mature stature. Please share photos. Do you have before and after pictures?

Martha

I do Martha. Can I remember to get them uploaded?

;)

Two years ago, we had an extremely rainy year: more than double the average annual precipitation. My bearded iris are planted in full sun on slopes or in raised beds yet I still lost about a third of them. Ninety inches of precipitation could not be overcome by good drainage LOL. After cleaning and replanting there was little bloom last year. So this year, I'm looking forward to the return of my bearded iris.

Cecily - that is a lot of work, digging them up and replanting. I hope it works out. I love bearded iris, but I have a completely level lot and clay soil and they don't last long for me without problems. I still have a few that are planted n an area near roots of spruce trees so it's pretty dry there a lot.

Prairiemoon, my iris are historics: in a typical year they're effortless. I'm sure they will come right back. My soil is also heavy clay but the property definitely isn't flat ;)

ETA Deer have been browsing the foliage this winter. The poor iris just can't get a break!

I am hoping to actually spend some time in the garden. I have been dealing with a whole slew of family health issues and have pretty much lost the last two years except for a bit in the veggie garden.

Sorry to hear you've had more than one health issue to deal with. One is enough, but it doesn't always work that way. Hopefully things will slow down enough to allow for gardening because when time allows, gardening can help so much with the stress.

This will be our 3rd year at our house as well... I always look forward to the leap! But at the end of summer I moved a bunch of plants. I had haphazardly planted lots of stuff and decided to move things more by color. Our house is beige so I decided the yellows, oranges and reds should be in the beds around the house and the pinks, purples, blues, etc. are now in the long backyard bed. That's going to be my more fun area where anything I want to try can grow.

I'm looking forward to all of it!

Google has the version of my house from last May or so. Will it do Martha? I finalized the shape of the bed in October 2018. The plants are all so tiny! I still have experiments going on everywhere. It's what the street side of the fence is. Hence the wild tangled mess. That'll be last to change.

Before (ok, so it had "gardens", those two railroad tie beds in the front.)