As I go to get the mail, I find more and more seed catalogs in the mail box. Not fair for those of us living in Minneapolis. It is going to be a long time before we can start our seeds indoors. It does give one pause to look through the pages. I was looking at Park Seed this afternoon, and I longed for my snow banks to be melted away. It goes down to below zero at night, but during the day with strong sun rays we are reaching 30 degrees. I spoke last week to a client of ours that moved to Dallas. I was teasing him about his 12" of snow. He told me not to panic by the next day most of it would be melted and over the weekend he was planning on putting down his weed control fertilizer. I don't even think about that until May.
Minneapolis is in zone 4a which means we need to plant vegetation that can handle are below zero temps. I lonely look at seed catalogs and find some interesting plants, but they cannot handle those cold temps. The coneflowers do very well here. Black Eye Susans can grow and grow. The phlox make the gardens pretty. Daisies do well come years and some springs they do not come back. Putting leaves and then having piles of snow protect the plants help a great deal. Lilacs are great spring plants in Minneapolis. The neighborhoods smell so good when they are in bloom. Roses are hit and miss. You need to treat them with lots of TLC and put them to bed in Nov. with a good covering of leaves or hay.
As a shoveled this morning and threw more snow on my plants, I wondered when I would see them again. I know they are under the mounds of snow, and I long to see the green growth come back. Come on seed catalogs give me a break. Don't come to me until March. I can't really start my seeds indoors until April. Don't be so cruel to those of us who live in Minneapolis.
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