Janie, we love the Rocket snapdragons, especially the red. Sometimes they self-seed for us. I should talk with you about the cut flower trade sometime.

In the last week I've potted up: a few dozen lupine seedlings, 5 kinds of hosta, 7 varieties of tomatoes into gallon pots, red elder, bloodroot, pulmonaria, polemonium, cranesbills, several kinds of sedum, full size and dwarf bearded iris, both white and blue crested iris, Diablo ninebark seedlings,and twenty grafted apple trees into 3 gallon pots.

In bloom: late tulips, poeticus daffodils, late apples, crabapples, cherries,forget-me-nots, lupine, 4 kinds of trillium, starflower, bunchberry, pink ladyslipper, lilacs galore, bearded iris (Immortality rebloomer was first), dwarf bearded iris, polemonium, Quaker Maids, allium, wild and tame strawberries, Ragged Robin, Honesty, ... and many others.

I've weeded the lupine/New England aster bed and cut back the asters. The trimmings go right down on the garden bed as mulch. I need to dig and split many others this week, and will be sheet composting along the hedgerow, and over the invasive gooseneck loosestrife. We're enjoying unlimited rhubarb in 13 varieties and asparagus.

We thought the purple tree peony had died, but see numerous shoots emerging from the ground. I assume it's the rootstock regenerating rather than the graft, but it will be interesting to see what sort of bloom we get in a year or so. The other tree and herbaceous peonies are budded and will soon delight us.

Glads are sprouting, overwintered potatoes are showing above ground, and we have plenty to do in the next two weeks if we're to have enough seedlings, veggies, and plants for the farm stand. I wonder why my wrist hurts.