I read recently in my frugal gardening book that you can take prunings or cuttings from certain bushes and stick them in the ground and they will root and produce more bushes. I went around the farm and cut butterfly bushes, rose bushes, and hydrangeas and tried it out in a garden bed that was empty in the back of the house. We hope that the author told the truth and in a few years we will have more bushes in that empty patch. I also heard that the Old City Cemetary in Lynchburg, Va has the oldest rose bushes in the country. You can buy cuttings from the cemetary to plant in your yard. I'd love some of those bushes!
I'm very surprised that there are no forsythia in the entire farm. I would really love some cuttings from those bushes to plant and add some more spring color. I love that yellow!
Sweet Pea is really taking to her halter and walking well. We searched for fiddlehead ferns by the stream and pond again. Not a sign, but the skunk cabbage are opening up. I really would like to try cooking up a batch or fiddleheads. They are supposed to taste like asparagus!
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