I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season.  Our white Christmas was beautiful, now I'm ready for some warmer weather!

I adopted two new kitties from the SPCA.  Dahlia and Odin are sleek, black and very fast.  They were hired to keep the voles out of the greenhouse and are doing a great job.  This sure beats using poison.  Their training is coming along quite nicely, especially now that they've started using the litter box instead of the ranunculus bed.  They had a blast digging up all the ranunculus corms.  I had to replant them twice. April likes to eat voles too, that's why I don't use poison.  

Believe it or not I'm already getting ready for spring.  It's cold outside but the greenhouse is warm enough for calla lilies,anemones, ranunculus, amaryllis , lavender, scented geranium and potted succulents as well as some new larkspur seedlings.

I've ordered lots of new shrubs to plant in April and May and will be starting more early spring seeds next week. In October I planted over 1000 tulips, tall single late tulips, brightly striped parrot tulips and soft pink peony flowered tulips.  If the cats do a good job controlling the voles I should have lots to use for spring wedding designs and farmers' market sales.  Tulips are rodent and deer candy but I've also planted some less tasty, ( to vermin ) muscari and allium. The muscari will be blooming at the same time as the tulips and the allium will bloom in early June. 

I gave myself a tractor as an early Christmas present. I've always hired another farmer to do my tractor work for me so this is an exciting new challenge!  I'm just waiting for some nice weather so I can use it for something besides moving snow!  

The Doylestown farmers' market will be starting the second week in April and the Wrightstown farmers' market will be starting the Saturday before mother's day. I will be there with lots of beautiful tulips, daffodils, lilies, calla lilies, seedlings, potted herbs, and potted shrubs. My farm stand will open with the daffodils.  Stop by and say hi.  

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