Re: Planting Tiggers garden

What a wonderful memorial, reading this brought tears to my eyes.. hearing
all the love and care that went into your best friends final resting place.

Another friend of mine recently lost her cat, and has decided to also plant
a memorial garden for Peaches at her new home.

She has had several dreams of her cats.. the first involved white
butterflies, so I suggested she plant some Gaura Lindheimer Whirling
Butterflies.. does anyone have any experience with this?

Matt please keep us posted on the progress of Tiggers garden, and thanks
for sharing such a wonderful memorial with us.

Evonne
(pac nw zone 8/catmint memorial garden)


At 11:24 PM 3/8/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
> I planted Tiggers grave this afternoon. Moved 2 dwarf var. Boxleaf
>euonymous to either side of the flower carpet rose already there. Moved
>some of the "Pickwick" purple and white striped crocus into the line
>between the 2 var. boxleaf euonymous. A neighbor gave us a nice clump of
>her pale purple crocus that were in bloom when he died.
> Behind that we added 3 creeping phlox with the candy stiped blooms, and
>placed the 3 new vareigated Iris Pallida just behind them. I set the Batik
>iris from Dr Lannon's in the middle of these.
> A miniature rose Jolly Cupido (ruixandra) from a pot on the front porch is
>just in front of Tiggers stone. It has purple and white striped blooms.
> Tiggers stone is just a 14 inch tall by 6 inch wide chunk of granite
>riprap from the pond waterfall. Just enough to remind me of exactly where
>he is buried without being too much. I don't want it so obviously a
>gravesite that friends feel a need to comment on it.
> Planted 5 large tubers of the new Canna Striata (white and green large
>stripes) in back and around the stone. Will add 2 more of these tomorrow.
>They and the vareigated iris just came in from Von Bourgandine this week.
> I also need to add some of the hardy blue plumbago back into the bed. I
>had to dig it all up before I dug his grave. I gave some of it to our vet
>and her assistant to plant in their gardens as a reminder of Tigger. They
>are both wonderful people. 
> I'm going to add some "Celebrity Ice" blue petunias later this summer and
>I need to go up to Smithfield Gardens and get a Bengal Tiger canna. At $9
>for a one gallon pot they were a little pricey, I skipped it last summer,
>but the stipes vary enough from plant to plant that I want to get a perfect
>one.
> Our one rosemary still needs to be moved, but I'm going to put it near the
>path to the garden, so I can brush against it (when it gets a lot bigger
><VBG>) as I go down the path.
> We have a few striped hosta's and some phalaris grass that I might move in
>later, but I need to see how big everything else will get first.
> Thank you to everyone. I already had some of the plants you mentioned and
>it was nice to be able to just move them in and have it mostly planted
>already.
> Thanks again
>
>Matt Trahan  <matttrahan@ecsu.campus.mci.net>
>USDA zone 8, Sunset zone 31, AHS heat zone 7, northeastern N.C.
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