moving things, was Re: White Flower Farms - a brief visit
- Subject: moving things, was Re: White Flower Farms - a brief visit
- From: I* H*
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:26:34 -0400
I am planning on moving a lot of lily of the valley, also jacob's ladder
and stella d'oro lilies, BUT
in my area of NY State, zone 5ish, we have had very little rain, none
yet in July at all, everything looks exhausted and almost dead when I
come home from work at the end of each and every sunny hot day;
so will wait, and hope that it will happen, until we get some rain and
replanted stuff will have a chance to take root.
Isabelle Hayes
Gene Bush wrote:
>snip>
> To stick some plans in there. I just spent most of the week renovating
> one area of my garden. I had let a bed become overgrown with lily of the
> valley. The thugs had smothered out everything else in the bed. First they
> had to be dug out without damaging the tree roots of the white-blooming
> redbud that forms a canopy over the area. After they were removed.. two days
> of digging... I covered the L shaped area with about 4 inches of old potting
> medium from the nursery. Then about 800 pounds of composted manure. All was
> mixed thoroughly digging one spade at a time lengthwise and then across.
> Today I planted the area once more. Lots of ferns in 3's, primula in 3's and
> 6's, hellebore in pairs as they eventually get pretty good size. All is to
> bloom about the same time as the white blooming redbud... mid-April.
> Feels good to finally get back to my garden and get some dirt under my
> fingernails.
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