Re: Perennial garden reonovation?
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Perennial garden reonovation?
- From: M*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 10:07:07 EDT
Sharon-
I know when you spend alot of time and effort into putting together a garden
and it just doesn't "do" what you expect it to do it is disappointing and you
feel like starting all over......but you have to remember two things.
1) Perennials - sleep the 1st year, creep the 2nd, and leap the 3rd.
2) This has not been a "typical" summer for your area - you have been
experiencing a terrible heat wave and a drought.
I would recommend that you leave your perennials that exist now in their
spots. You may not have everything return from the winter but it will
probably be no fault of yours. The summer you have gone through was
unexpected and beyond your control. The new plants you planted this spring
were use to getting watered regularily and were pampered as most/some pot
plants get in nursery considitions (generally). When spring comes they just
may surprise you and spring back with vigor.
Good luck and keep your fingers crossed for a long fall and maybe some of
your perennials will gain some strength before old man winter comes. :o)
Happy Gardening
Kemberly McLain
Katy, Texas Zone 9
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