Susie....I may have to join y'all. I will have to check my seed stash and see what is ready. Not sure yet.
Kathy ~ Do you use deer repellant?? I could not garden without it, but, yes, sometimes they eat anyway when they are hungry enough. (They LOVE mums!!)
I am glad my hubby finally put in a good fence for our veggie garden. In there I have corn, zucchini, cantaloupe, beans, peas, 3 apple trees, many tomatoes, and a nectarine seedling growing from the compost pile. The ornamental beds are the "Dark Side Garden", White Flower Border", and the "Cottage Garden Bed", which has mainly pinks, purples and blues with a couple of pale yellow and some red snaps, here and there that I grew from seed. They sure took a long time to grow from winter sowing. Over a year...but mostly flowers were from Bluestone Perennials... Phlox, Asters, 1 Peony, 1 Tree Peony, Ageratum, Veronica, Agastache...this is a fairly new bed and it took a long time to prepare as I have rotten clay soil, and still it needs a good mulching every year. All of my beds require it. I think I need to cut back, but how??? However, it does not look lush. I must think of what else to do in there to make it look better. I hope to be getting a watering system installed, I think that will help, as I water them all from the hose.
Here are the deer in winter trying to survive on frozen ceonothus or manzanita...
