Spring planning, catalog, spring catalog

Clematis scottii
Item # 37163 		Clematis scottii
Sugarbowl Clematis

each $7.99
3 or more $7.79
7 or more plants $7.59
Coreopsis grandiflora 'Sunray'
Item # 37930 		Coreopsis grandiflora 'Sunray'
'Sunray' Tickseed

each $5.49
3 to 6 plants $5.29
7 or more $4.99
Lonicera sempervirens ‘Blanche Sandman’
Item # 66315 		Lonicera sempervirens ‘Blanche Sandman’
Blanche Sandman Honeysuckle Vine

each $5.99
3 to 6 plants $5.79
7 or more $5.59
Monarda 'Fireball'
Item # 70994 		Monarda 'Fireball' PP#14325
Fireball Bee Balm

each $7.99
3 to 6 plants $7.79
7 or more $7.59
  • Topic: Garden Design
  • Author: Cindy Bellinger (updated, 2008 by Kerry Kirkpatrick)
  • Keywords: gardening, maintenance, planning, tips,
  • Date: January 2008

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Still no snow. But the cold is enough to keep me dreaming about spring. I’m sure you’ve noticed all the gardening catalogs are starting to arrive in the mail.

The clothing, tool and kitchen catalogs I toss in the bin at the post office; I keep the ones for gardeners. And drool over all the lovely perennials and ache for all those luscious tomatoes and pears. Wouldn’t it be fun to have the garden of your dreams?

For me, my fantasy garden has oodles of trellises with lush, fragrant vines. Tiny leaves of a vigorous groundcover drape over stone walls. And flowers come back year after year, flowers I’ve come to know.

But that fantasy is also a garden that needs no work; it just happens, sprouting from a very active imagination. And this, surprisingly, falls short of what the perfect garden really is. The perfect garden is always just ahead of us, something to aspire to.

That’s why all these gardening catalogs right now are great. Our mail order department, High Country Gardens, releases new plants each Spring and Fall. Lovely things. Leafing through it conjures up all kinds of fantasies. Then there are the fruit and vegetable catalogs. How I long for an orchard and wide rows of corn and squash.

Ah, well. As it turns out, though, the perfect garden is really about getting down on our hands and knees and digging in the dirt. I can’t wait for spring. The perfect garden is always becoming. Yet if I never get those vine covered trellises, the dreaming is fun.