What do you guys do in winter to keep from going sir-crazy. (flowers, palms)
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I paint the rooms inside my house and other various indoor projects. I also plan out diagrams for landscape and hardscape projects and start acquiring some of the product. It makes springtime chores much more efficient.
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I feel your pain. Northern MN here.....and I haven't figured out yet how not to go crazy. Although it helps a bit to shovel...a lot...and swear....a lot....while shoveling
Just in the last week I've started stamping down little trails to my various gardens, and making more trails around where I want to put in new gardens in the spring. Basically wandering around my yard looking like a snowy idiot- I think the neighbors are starting to talk
Those sadistic pricks at the nursery places have started sending out their full color catalogs and it's not helping! I have lists, lists, and more lists of things that would "ooooohhhhh, look just great in that spot!". hmmmm
I've also spent some time this winter watching my house plants die....again. If it's in the ground, I can make it grow...in a pot? not so much.
drink heavily-no just kidding-work out and swim indoors at the ymca,read,watch tv and computer (city data forums)let my dog in and out about 20 times a day,feed wild birds and squirrels,listen to music-hope for a snow day every now and then.
I'm just finishing up in a big seed swap, from early Nov til mid-Dec... then the seeds come early Jan... i sort and plan, then start winter sowing... futz with that from about mid to late January until end of March to mid-april. then figure out where i'm going to put it all.
But I want to get a Palm as an indoor plant to keep me sane through the Winter lol. A Trachycarpus Wagnerianus or a Washingtonia Filibust or both.
Aren't they sort of expensive? I remember seeing a fan palm in a big pot at a garden center sold for around $200. A lot of big palms and other seem to be bought mainly by businesses for areas on display, like shopping malls.
I love to garden. I grow a lot of native plants plus strawberries. But its MN and december. I wont be able to garden for 7 more months.
What do you guys do.
I live in California. I was close to 70 degrees today. A bit chilly, so I brought a jacket out, just in case it dipped into the low 60's.
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