Do you have a gardening journal?  I have journals for everything but love planning for changes in my flower gardens the most.  I started a Gardening Journal late last summer.

This is my 2018-19 Flower Gardening Journal

Back in the fall when I completed my rose garden to MY satisfaction I immediately started thinking about my perennial garden.  I knew I needed to be able to remember where everything was at the point in all of my flower beds so I started my journal.  This journal has been active all through the fall and this winter with notes of whats to go and whats to stay.  I’m including a few pages of my journal with color photos I took and diagrams of things to come.  It’s relaxing to sit in my recliner on frigid nights going through the journal and my new seed catalogs planning for that precious spring to return!  If you click on the pictures they will enlarge so you can see the notes and work ahead for the spring.

4 x 6 photos help me keep track of the area in the yard as well as what was there in 2018.

Some of my photos don’t have many notes because I’m still not sure of what will change in the area. I have lots of thinning and replanting to do in so many areas.

I have lists of plants that I gathered seedlings from and lists of seeds I ordered at the end of the season. They are being kept in a cool dark spot.

This is a diagram of a new bed that I plan to put in outside of the yard. My yard only has one area that gets a lot of sun so I’m spreading my wings to the yard between the house and pond.

Pinterest is a favorite go-to site for finding colors or plants with height or ground cover. When I find things I like and want to look into adding to my garden, I copy and paste a large group on a page and print it off and add to the journal for reference.

Are you thinking about your flower and vegetable gardens yet?  Are you working on an orchard?  Try a journal and see how things progress in the future!