Got the Richters 2004 seed catalogue a few weeks ago in December, which was even earlier than last year; have since been sweetening the winter bitter by planning future gardens...
{The CBC predicts an Extreme windchill of minus 41 for tonight. Yellowknife, by comparison, is predicted to have a windchill of minus 38 tomorrow. Brr!!!}
Might try roses again this year; have been browsing through Hortico's site, and using the EveryRose & HelpMeFind Roses sites to help make my decisions. I am quite taken by the Brother Cadfael rose, partially because it is pretty and partially because I find its namesake so entertaining.
At my family reunion last year, some of us visited the Mohawk Chapel; and during a walk around its grounds & on the nature trail nearby, I scrounged up a few seeds as souvenirs. They're currently overwintering in the fridge, and I hope to germinate them when I get the Nursery* set up.
The Nursery has been an interesting experiment. I didn't expect to have a problem with plants growing too well, but they did; so they got crowded because the Nursery was too small, and then they lost much of their vigour. Duh. I should have realized how unhealthy an environment that would be; a greenhouse needs good air circulation, or disease will breed...
Canadian Tire has a "greenhouse" for sale that might do the trick... seems sufficiently large & sturdy... and relatively inexpensive. The question is... will it withstand the onslaught of three curious cats?
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* Nursery. *snort* I realize that, what with all my infantilizing of kittykats, this anthropomorphizing of plants must make it seem as if I'm the only one who can't hear my biological clock banging away... But I come by it honestly. My own mum, who is surely beyond such an imperative by now, calls her plants her babies; and she refers to a plant which needs repotting as "needing a new pair of shoes" {should hope that's due to empty nest syndrome, not some previous life as a craps hustler}.
