RE: More rain; plants to plant

we had a good, day-long rain on friday and i had some hope we would get more during the weekend. got a few clouds but no showers, alas.

went to the sarasota succulent society plant sale earlier today. it's always an adventure because you never know what will turn up. today's sale was buy-one-get-one-free. all we bought was an elkhorn fern [only $2.00 for a 1-gallon pot and got a free aloe vera]. but there were also some interesting bargains there that i should have taken advantage of and didn't. they had a bunch of cardboard zamia seedlings, each at least 2 years old, for $3.00 apiece, and several interesting jatrophas, including one i don't think i have, for a couple of dollars each.


At 10:10 AM 5/26/03 -0400, you wrote:
Hello to all!

Well, it's raining again here!  I have a whole nursery's worth of things
to plant, but it's pouring!  This spring I've been photographing
individual plants and making databases for each of my gardens whenever I
have some down time.  I really need to get my house organized "post
fire", but they are still finishing the construction and they said it's
best to wait until the carpets are installed to start unpacking.  It's
very frustrating!

Yesterday I purchased a new dicentra formosa 'Bacchanal' which has
deeper red flowers.  They are almost maroon.  Here's a link to a photo
on Chris' site:
http://www.hort.net/gallery/view/fum/dicfoba/.  I also got Agastache
'Red Fortune' and a rally beautiful heuchera 'Cherries Jublilee'. The
coral bells has maroon foliage and deep salmon pink blooms.  I love
agastache and the color of this cultivar is beautiful!  See:
http://www.avantgardensne.com/agared.

I also am making labels for some of my collections.  I'm using zinc Eon
rose markers and using my Brother p-Touch to make labels for the
markers.  They look very nice and won't be as ugly as the white labels I
have all over the garden!  Right now I've marked all of my hostas and a
few of my daylily beds.

I realized that I need to take more photos of my gardens from a
distance.  My digital images seem to be better in the close-ups.  I
think I will try to use the manual instead to the automatic feature on
my Nikon Cool Pix 995.  Anybody have any suggestions?

I've posted some May pics in my briefcase at Yahoo:
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/chrispnpt.

Hope you're out gardening!

Chris
Long Island, NY
Zone 7

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