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Spring Bulb Planner
Bulbs go in the ground in October and get judged in April. In between there is nothing to look at, so this planner keeps the numbers for you: what you planted, how deep, when the soil was ready and what came up.
It follows our guide "When to Plant Tulip Bulbs, Zone by Zone" and extends it to daffodils, hyacinths, crocus and other spring bulbs. Find your planting window, log the soil temperature until it reaches the number your region uses, plan each bed on the grid, and record the day you plant. Where university extension offices disagree (depth, mulch timing, bone meal, chilling weeks), the planner shows who says what and leaves the line blank for your choice.
Print it on US Letter, keep it in a binder, and compare your numbers next year.
Perennial Border Planner
A border is easy to buy and hard to move. This planner gives you an hour of pencil work that shows the gaps (a bare month, a row of plants all the same height) while changing them still costs an eraser.
Describe the site, draw the bed to scale on grid pages, list the plants with height, spread and bloom months, then fill in the bloom calendar and the side view. The gap finder counts what is in bloom each month, and the shopping list turns the plan into a number of plants and a total.
The planner gives you the frame, not plant data: heights and bloom times come from your plant tags or your local extension office, so they match your climate.
What's inside:
- Site profile: sun, soil, moisture, zone
- Two plan-view grid pages for the bed, and a scaled side view
- Plant list for 34 plants with height, spread, tier and bloom months
- Two-page bloom calendar and a month-by-month gap finder
- Shopping list, planting-day record and first-season bloom log
- Review page and two pages of dotted notes
- 18 pages, US Letter, prints in black and white
Rose Care Journal
Roses go into winter on what you did in the fall, and you only learn what worked in April. This journal keeps both ends of that story on paper.
It follows the order of our guide "October Rose Care: 8 Jobs in the Right Order": find your first killing frost, rake and check for rose rosette, water deeply, guard against voles, find the bud union, plan for potted and tree roses, and do nothing on purpose (no feeding, no deadheading, no early mounding). Then mound on the right day, watch the roses through winter, and open the mounds in stages.
Print it on US Letter, keep it in a binder, and compare your numbers next year.
What's inside:
- Eight-job checklist with a date line for each job
- Daily overnight-low logs for October and November
- Rake, water, vole and sucker records, bush by bush
- Rose register for up to 30 roses
- Mound-day guide and record, winter watch, spring opening record
- Season review and two pages of dotted notes
- 22 pages, US Letter, prints in black and white