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I am eager and excited to start gardening and blogging about it this year!
The preliminary work is done in my flower garden…the raking, clearing and assessing. I begin the season with high hopes and expectations!
That said, I won’t be sugarcoating my success this season. I know that the next few months will be filled with plenty of frustrations and I’ll be telling it like it is! Yes, there is a big bud on one of my three surviving peony plants and the ants are milling around, but it probably won’t bloom. They never do. I’m still trying to figure out why. Our Broadside producer, who is sitting next to me, just said “I can’t believe your peonies don’t bloom”. As he does annually, he will soon show me the photos of his gorgeous dish-size peonies. It will be my first frustration of the season!
I would like to give a little shout-out to the hosta! Those lily-like, tried-and-true perennials that bring so much joy. They always return and always look great and can perk up a shady area in no time! I even plant them in sunny areas. They do better there than many of my “full sun” plants.
If it wasn’t for the hosta, I may have thrown out my gardening gloves a long time ago. They are such resilient plants and I’m always happy to see them poking up in the spring. I caught my 3-year-old son jumping on one and kicking at the buds last weekend. I shrieked! I yelled! I lectured! And, I explained to him that the hosta plants are our friends! 
