Potting Ranunculus and Anemones and Pre-Sprouting Dahlias! 🙌🌿🌸 // Garden Answer 

Spring Fever got me. Went shopping at the plant nursery yesterday and bought 4 new pots and a trellis. Found myself thinking this would be so much more fun if I were shopping with Laura and her mom 😂

Who else is amazed at how clean Laura managed to keep her white top, would be black by the time I finished potting up 🐈😍

We drove over from the Medford area to pick up 2 Mini Peach Trees yesterday. Your Mom is such a sweet lady. She took us over to see the seed cleaning process and we stood and chatted for quite awhile. Met your Sister and the lady that works there that took the time to tag the 2 trees for me the day before. The guys that work there are also just so friendly and helpful. Please know you have a wonderful family and staff at the nursery. My bucket list has one more checked off. Prayers and blessings to you and your sweet family.

OMG, who else wishes they could have all those plants ready to go for projects?! Her plant collection is like candyland for me! 😂🤣 I bought of bunch of tiny northstar boxwoods online and they come in may. Laura, you inspired me to buy them and try my hand at a mini hedge! My husband jokingly says “You have laura’s spirit but not her budget, so relax” 🤣😩 But that’s not the point of your channel. Because even though I always wish I had your budget, I love your channel for the inspiration it gives to make it my own way! ❤️❤️❤️

My heart has been hurting from much of whats going on in this world. 💔Thank you for the wonderful distraction of beautiful things, your consistency is very appreciated!

I sometimes feel sad, disappointed with myself, and even angry at times when i realize how much I didn't know about plants and gardening. I am so happy I found this channel as it literally has changed my life. I have learned more than I could even attempt to say. One of the best ones is how to spot the beauty in nature no matter the season. Winter to me was full of dull dead stuff. Now I can look out my 3rd floor window to see the beautiful structure and color of the trees the house has across the highway as well as all the trees on my walks. I never knew what red twig dogwoods were and now I LOVE how they look with the snow around their red beautiful stems/twigs. And one more thing on the endless list is I just recently heard the seeds rustling in the breeze of trees on my walk. I don't know what they are but the seeds start red, then turn purple and then in winter brown. Anyway thank the Lord for Garden Answer family.

GOOD MORNING GARDENING FAMILY. In another winter storm this morning, so glad Laura is not. HOPE FOR SPRING. Have a wonderful day💝🇨🇦🌻

Good morning garden friends! 🌺🌼🌸🌻🌹

Good morning ALL! 💚☀️🌺

Woohoo! I'm planting ranunculus for the first time this Spring. I can't wait!! 💐

Good morning everyone 🦋🦋🌼🌼🌻🌻🌱🌱☕🌅

This comment is for Aaron. Please secretly video Laura playing her beautiful Steinway and then ask her if she will share it with us. ;)

Good morning! 🌻🐝

Good morning all have a safe and blessed day

I’m loving how you are utilizing your new heated greenhouse, what fun! Makes you wonder how you ever lived without it!

❄️Good morning Laura and GA friends from snowy Michigan. Wishing I had your greenhouse, Laura, I’d love to be planting anything right now. Coffee will have to do for now ☕️. Enjoy the day everyone, no matter the weather 😄🌷

How fun! I have major greenhouse envy. I wish I had the space for all that fun experimenting.

Laura If you take cuttings from your potted dahlias and root them you will get more perfectly formed “show quality” flowers from the cutting propagated plants over the ones from the tubers. Weird but true.

I love your approach of trial and error, experimenting. Its make me so much more confident to dig into my new garden because while failure is always an option, I know now, thats ok and I can just refine and try again! Thank you so much for your relatable real life style, its so inspiring!!

Good morning Laura and Garden Answer Family ✨Laura you are the Queen of Gardens! Everything you touch flourishes into heavenly blooms...you enter the cold frame and I Swear I can hear the angels singing hallelujah.....the Queen has Arrived 🤍🙏🏼🤍

Great music! I wanted to boogie on out to my greenhouse and start planting along with Laura! . Too cold yet, not heated greenhouse!

Ice storm here in southeastern Pa! Perfect timing to get comfy on the couch with tea and Garden Answer! So ready for spring!!🌸🌷

This is where I go when the world has lost their minds…. Thank you Laura for keeping us sane!

I was about to jump outta my chair, cut a rug and get DOWN to the music jams!🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻

Good morning, Laura ☕️ This video is exactly what I needed while watching the snow ❄️ fall during another winter 🥶 snowstorm. Fingers crossed 🤞🏻 for the pre sprouted Dahlias! Have a Blessed Day 😊🐈

It’s gonna be so fun to follow along and see how these do. Pretty good percentages on what stored successfully. I guess the final test will be seeing the actual sprouting. 💚💚💚

the funky music with laura sped up was fun to watch.

It is nice to see the step by step process! Can't wait to see the flowers & color!! 😃🌸💚💙💜💛🌿

Dreaming of spring 🌺🌻🌷😁. Thanks Laura 🤗

Good morning glory from Beltsville MD 32 degrees and lots of rain

I would love to see you take cuttings from your presprouted tubers. I see others do it, but would rather learn how, from you. Your processes are clear and fun to watch. 🥰

I live in zone 6b where it is currently sleeting and am dreaming of my gardens. I know ranunculus are cold tolerant and can be planted in the spring. What tips do you have for a first timer who doesn’t own grow lights or a greenhouse? I blame Laura for my new obsession 😂

Now we know where Cheddar hangs out. 😀🐈😼

Gosh, I see snow and everyone wearing jackets, I'm in north central Florida and it's 82 degrees in February! We will have a few cold spells but just enough to kill baby seedlings, any tubers, bulbs ect in the ground gets to live there! I can't seem to get my garden ready fast enough for me. New Homestead means new garden. I planted my Hollyhocks Rudbeckia and strawberries with Lavatera 2 days ago and they L O V E IT IN THIS SOIL

Good Morning from. Snowy New Jersey GA friends!

Good morning! We’ve got snow on the ground, again!! Spring is coming, Spring is coming… All those wonderful plants in the greenhouse can’t wait to see everything planted.

So glad you did this video. I put just a few Ranunculus in when you did so I could copy you step by step. The shoots appeared 3 days ago and I was wondering if you'd show us this next step. Perfect timing, thank you!

A couple of weeks ago, I was thinking I'm not sure I had ever seen the greenhouse/cold frame look so empty before. How quickly that is changing! Haha! It is obvious you are excited with the possibilities that can be in the garden this year and your excitement is contagious! It is encouraging for those of us who are less experienced to see someone with lots of experience still learning/experimenting with new things. Gardening truly is a lot of trial by fire.

Like you, I grew, stored and pre-sprouted ranunculus and anemones for the first time last year in to this season. I stored mine in a mesh, bulb bag in a cool, dark storage room. Both ranunculus and anemones stored perfectly. No medium needed, IMO 🤷‍♀️ I can’t wait to see yours bloom again! 😃🌸🌱

Only Laura can wear a beautiful white sweater while potting, and come out unscathed!❤

love seeing the difference in gardens I live in a zone 9, and my ranunculus have been flowering for an entire month 🥰

Can’t wait to see it all grow and bloom so exciting! You’ll be surprised what a moldy bulb can do. I had a a elephant ear bulb in a closet that was forgotten. It was very moldy on one side and squishy. I planted it in ground anyway just to see . It grew up to around 5 feet tall so beautiful I was so surprised and it was my first time growing elephant ears.

I’m tuning in from AUS 🇦🇺 just visited a botanic garden where some stunning Dhalias were in full bloom I would have never thought in a million years i would be spending my Sunday’s admiring such wonderful beautiful creations like dahlia’s nor did I think I would love and appreciate gardening as much as I do thanks to you! So much so I am starting my journey into horticulture! You make hours upon hours of back to back episodes sooo enjoyable now I sit and wait for a new episode to come out. Absolutely adore your knowledge and cool calm approach to gardening 👩‍🌾 thank you I finally found my path that brings so much joy in life thanks to you!

Pretty groovy tunes for the potting montage today. Made me bob my head to the beat. 🤣

no gloves, no hair tie, no apron, and a white sweater - Laura you are a gardening rock star! I cant water my garden without ending up a muddy mess. :) Love your video's😎🌞

Is anyone else amazed at how clean Laura managed to stay in that gorgeous quilted top??

Yesterday, 82…today 46….. I am afraid to do anything, but this is a great idea! Lucky to have found you! 🙏💕🌺

Love the garden table with wheels and wire tops. A future video to show us how to build? I love anything with wheels! (Carolyn) Vermont Cat Lady/retired Montessori teacher formerly in San Diego/now pet sitter & dog walker (business owner). AND ready to plant enough flowers to sell/give away in my front yard flower stand. I’m calling it “Keep Smilin’ Flower Stand”.

I love how you can play in the dirt with a white shirt mine would be very dirty lol love ya'll

Good morning and Happy Friday!!! Snow again this morning and cold..... so I will continue to enjoy what you're planting up🌱.... looking forward to this week recap highlights Have a lovely weekend all.. 🇨🇦

Good morning, Laura, from Windermere Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 I don't grow any of your choices, but I have seen that this is the time to do it. 👩‍🌾👍 We are actually hot 🔥 this week. In the mid-80°'s F. Almost need to put on the AC mid-afternoon. Happy Gardening Garden Friends 💚

Love you give us options and the inspiration to find new ways to grow! It’s wonderful to have these videos in the early spring to feed that need to garden. Well done!!!!

Laura always has a beautiful smile but this morning, especially after she finished the little mini tour, her smile was just radiant. It’s so obvious how much growing plants feeds her soul! It’s a beautiful thing to see and we are so lucky that she shares this with us! 💚🌷🌸🥦🌽🥬

I just so look forward to watching and hearing your good information. My garden 2021 is the best. I have learned so much. I love to share the beauty and joy of gardening. Thanks 😍 I also enjoy Aaron and your sweet children. God Bless🙏

you are having so much fun in your heated space these days; it makes me happy to see you so happy! what a production, too! wow! look at all those little green beauties!! great video instruction, too 🙂 ❤ thanks for the video!! 🙂 ❤

It's really starting to fill up in the greenhouse. So excited for what's to come this year. Lot's of new seeds i've never grown before.

Hi GA and all the fans! Coffee and Laura, great start to the day! Am I the only one who takes notes?

Everything is looking good and your green house is wonderful. Can't wait to see all the beautiful color when they are in bloom

I love seeing your green house fill with beautiful plants 🌱🪴🌸! Currently feels like -3F here in Wyoming. This brings my heart such joy and hope for the coming seasons! Spring is coming, maybe a bit slowly but sooner than later😉

I just love watching your videos Laura! Thank you and Aaron for all your work. 😊

Good morning! 😊

This channel and Flock Finger lake are my morning routine and I’m so grateful for it ❤️🌞

I went shopping for pots yesterday and we ended up with snow today , it’s going to be about between 8-12inches so I was happy to see this video of some plants 🪴 .I can’t wait to see all your things come up , it must be such a joy to have the greenhouse to experiment with !love all your videos 🪴🌻🌸

Your heated greenhouse looks so great Laura! I wish I had one! It would be my she shed getaway for sure. Love 70 degrees. We still have 1/2 inch of ice on the ground. Ranunculus and dahlias have not arrived yet. We are 6b. Guessing they will ship out sometime in March as our last frost date is the last week of April. Thank you for giving me the inspiration to try these beautiful corms and tubers. 🌸🌺🌱🌿🌠

My new favorite GA saying: “Let’s see what happens.”

Just so great to see the start of planting for this year. Just can't wait to see them beautiful blooms.

Good morning

Love your greenhouse, it gives you so much space to work!

Woke up to lots of snow again here in Southern Ontario (Canada); but Laura's beautiful weather is definitely the 'pick me up' we all need right now!

The greenhouse is awesome! Dahlias are some of our favorites! Looking forward to seeing yours and ours as well!

I’m going to be trying all these methods very soon! It’s the first year we tried storing any tubers. Thanks so much for the advice!

Looking fantastic. Fun Fun. Thank you so very much for sharing this with us.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Everything is looking wonderful.

Whoot whoot 🙌🏼🙌🏼 first garden tour of the year!! lol! 😊♥️

It’s like you READ my mind, I wanted you to tell me EVERYTHING you had I’m going in the greenhouse!! Thank you 😊!!

We’re experiencing a bit of a warm front where I live, and it just makes me so eager to go start planting outside.

Good morning all. Laura, I ordered some Anemones from Brecks. I'm excited to get them. Thank you for showing me what to do when they arrive.

The consummate gardener...The bravest gardener I know of that will wear the prettiest tops in cream/white while potting up plants...My top would be filthy...lol ;)

Love your channel. This is so timely, I just potted up my ranunculus pre-sprouted corms (?). I put them in the pots to shallow, they will be repotted tomorrow. I also dug up a huge clump of dahlia, which had never been dug since planting.

Thank you for all of the wonderful information!

Good morning GA family! Laura, if I had the cream blouse on and planting by the end would probably be gray.....how can you keep it so clean? So many beautiful plants....it's going to be gorgeous! Can't wait for you to start planting around the Hartley and the house. Anticipation is killing me😂😂😂

Thanks for sharing. Have a wonderful weekend.

I dug up some anemones in 2018, put them in a paper sack, and lost them. Well, I found them when I was moving and put them with my other corms. I decided to try sprouting them after watching this video. They are seriously sprouting!!!!!!! I am totally amazed!!!!

So excited to plan my garden this year 🥰

Morning!

I’d love to see an update on dahlias process. How did it go? How many have sprouted? How long did it take?

good moring

Good morning Laura and family, can't wait for the results, we're still in the low 20s single digits at nights no moisture in the Oklahoma Panhandle have a great rest of the day.

I love love your videos. Thank you soooo much. You are an inspiration

Thank you for showing how you started the dahlia tubers on their sides with the eye exposed. I would have put the eye up and the tuber straight down like a carrot. Good thing I saw this video!

Great project started. Looking forward to seeing them as they grow

Always learn something new. Might have to try dahlias this year…and ranunculus…and anemones :)

It is so hard to hold off when we are so ready for spring. I need to wait a couple more weeks as my greenhouse is just a cold frame. I have potted up my dahlias to check the viability and to give them a head start. I never thought to plant the questionable ones int trays. That will save so much space. Thanks for the tip.

Hello Laura, this video was an eye opener. After watching your video on starting ranunculus, I went ahead and started them (the drums were six years old). Unfortunately, I threw the ranunculus today because they all grew mold/fungus. I was feeling like a failure. However, after watching this video I learned that some of the ranunculus you started also grew mold/fungus and didn't feel that bad. I am just going to start ranunculus again. I appreciated your follow up videos. Thank you

Good video I need to keep an eye out for some of these :)

It's so satisfying to see your greenhouse fill up. What a wonderful space to experiment and get stuff growing early. I need to rethink my process since my greenhouse if nearly full of things I've wintered over. There's not much room to do what you're doing. That said, it's also not nearly as big as yours.

I’m guessing the chicken wire cloche over the beans and corn are to keep Cheddar and Russell from using that box for unsavory activity?! Gotta love the kitties!

Getting ready to plant up my new raised bed! (4x4x22") I have some Barry's Crazy Cherry tomato seeds sprouting in the "plant room" (spare bedroom) I'm planning a square foot method for veggies in the raised bed. I can't wait for warm weather!

God that is MY DREAM JOB!!! You don't know how fortunate you and your entire family are to literally be living the dream!!! It's a rare & amazingly special thing to be doing what you love & making money doing it! (I can't help it, I HAVE to mention that those flower bulbs look like little troll people & on had fingers lol) YES I have issues but it keeps life interesting!!! lol

Cats 🐱 “look mom put cat boxes for us everywhere”. 🤣😂