Outside or inside? Too cold to plant anything outside yet. Inside, planted salvia cuttings. I expect my bare-root fruit trees to arrive by end of March, so that will be the first things planted outside (two peaches, two apples, and a pear to add to existing mini-orchard).

I think inside is fine, as long as you clarify that.

I assume these are from stock plants, and you just want more of them? I took cuttings of subtropical 'temperennials' in my garden, back in late fall, just before it froze...cause I had a sneaking suspicion we were due for a cold winter. Good call! That wasn't from wanting more, per se, just wanting to not lose the plants. Something I kick myself for not doing over the past couple decades, but oh well.

^^ Yes, stock plants (or, as I call them -- mother plants).

Let us know how it goes -- you're a cryptomeria aficionado. One cryptomeria in Williamsport, MD is one of the only evergreens I've seen to look totally dead-brown many years ago (prb'ly from the 1994 extreme cold) and somehow recover, tho it still looks a bit battered (but not unhealthy).

Here's some cryptos a couple miles from the above spot.

I haven't put anything in our frozen ground yet. Started a few tomatos, scallions, and peppers indoors.

Fava beans.

I have been planting out for 2 or 3 weeks, starting with the seedlings I sowed last year and, in some cases, the year before. I have a bunch of perennials which have been bulking up, growing root mass, so I have been getting them in the ground as soon as even the tiniest bit of top growth is visible, working on the basis that there will be a whole lot more growth going on...but I just can't really see it yet. So a handful of penstemons (mensarum, strictus) and hardy geraniums as well as some fast growing penstemons such as smallii which have made a lot of growth from a late summer sowing..

Because I am clearing under long-established shrubs such as the enormo-roses, my aim is to grow a large number of easily raised, ground swallowing plants such as alchemilla (a form called 'robustum), aurinia, sedums, galliums, dianthus geranaium and campanulas...which have more or less filled up my greenhouse this winter. I need the space for the next tranche of seeds (have already started some of the annual climbers such as thubergia and cobaens). I have also planted out various cuttings (more penstemons, cistus, lavenders and salvias). So yep, I am right in the middle of the spring planting and sowing frenzy...which won't slow down until June, after the biennial sowing. July and August are my non-sowing months, when I could probably go on holiday if I didn't have a million pots of seedlings to attend to.

I would say that my last planting of 2024 were 450 species tulips on Christmas Eve while the very first plants out of the blocks in 2025 were antennaria montana (to edge the wild tulips bed).

Here we go. 4-30-2025

Planted one Picea glauca 'densata' to replace one that died last season.

It is beginning to break bud, so I thought I'd better get it in the ground.

:-)

I planted a lot of phlox divaricata. The scent is heavenly and the flowers are so beautiful - they make me smile so much! I bought 3 last year and rabbits ate them before I was able to get them in the ground! Thankfully the original 3 are back and bigger and loaded with flower buds!

The only thing I planted this season was a fastigate Japanese plum yew to compliment my spreading 'Duke Gardens' Japanese plum yew planted last spring. Only place I could find either one was Forestfarm. Hopefully I can also find some coneflowers from a garden market since they attract so many butterflies and flower continuously thru the late summer and fall.

About to plant some Blue Angel hostas, but we need to get through a couple more weeks