I spent most of December and January looking at seed catalogs and dreaming about next growing season. I am a big planner and that time is actually welcome and I indulge in revisiting the catalogs several times, reading blogs, consulting online calendars and weather reports and even drawing a lot. It is a delicious awaiting and at least for me, planning solidifies my confidence and I start the wish list with easily a hundreds of products I want to buy and end up buying tops 20. A great exercise in self-restrain if you ask me! My garden keeps growing every year and on top of that I like to vary and learn something new, try new varieties and just keep myself out of my comfort zone. That being said, the plan around flowers is one that usually has to start very early because many of my dear favorites takes at least 10 to 12 weeks to be able to flower from seed, some of them require stratification and this year I introduced to my family one very difficult addition: Lisianthus . ...