coping with a near disaster

Ok Folks,
no matter what, do not let your 10 year old son drive the tractor, if you are expecting garden guests in the near future. Yup, he plowed right into the entrance to the garden!
Ok, my first thought, is he ok?, second is the tractor ok? the third OH SH*T.

I lost the low perennials in front, a lambs ear, a yellow sedum, an aster, a low growing yarrow and the feverfew. Three daylilies are chopped to the ground, but will recover in the nursery bed and two more are partially chopped. I'm moving new daylilies in (I always pot up new comers and wait until first bloom to match colors. AND I spent yesterday afternoon hitting three different garden centers looking for fill ins. I came home with some neat finds. A yellow allium (ok it won't go down in that area, I'll stick in a dry spot), a chartreuse leafed Centaurea montana, and some bushy annuals ( nothing exotic, a baby's breath and some niemsa).
So today, I'll move, plant and water before the heat strikes.


I have to comment on some of the neat combinations in the garden so far this year. Nigela with red coral bells and a Sambor geranium which is changing over to focus on VERNAL TUTONE daylily. I call one bed the crazy quilt garden because of the huge differences in leaf texture and color. One end of this bed it anchored by a hemlock and sweeps over to a red leafed rose. It shouldn't work, but it does.

Happy gardening all!
Cheryl
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Cheryl Isaak
Londonderry, NH
AHS Region 4, USDA Zone 4B/5A
growing, stitching and reading in NH

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