An open terrarium!

This winter I attended a Zoom Seminar on creating miniature landscapes!

It was an awesome hour chocked full of terrarium ideas, indoor and outdoor container landscapes and even outdoor in ground landscapes!

Lots of ideas and I have not been super successful with terrariums but the handout included the layers of gravel, charcoal and potting soil with the minimum depths of each layer!  So, I had this lovely stemmed glass container for years but was unsuccessful in attempting a planting in it!

So, now that I had the recipe, I tried it again!  So far so good, we'll see how it survives!  

 

Peony Tulips

Knock Knock on my door Saturday!

There stood a neighbor with flowers and wine in her hands saying Happy Easter!  So glad she moved into the neighborhood!

 

"Here we are again!"

 At last, time has arrived for my spring friends to pop up and shout "Hi!  We are back again!"

I have two kinds of squill, one blue and one white with blue accents.  Two kinds of Crocus...I need to replant more this fall!  The squill spread easily so I took a few shovels and transplanted them to the pollinator bed in the nearby Neighborhood Park that I have adopted!

I used to have dog tooth violets but they were so aggressive I killed them all and lost a few crocus along with them.  

Not our usual MN traditional Spring Flowers

 It was interesting and fun to search for flowers blooming in the Conservatory at Como Park.  Definately not the usual spring florals we find in our gardens!  But beautiful indeed!