Re: airhead
jeanne,
Your candid honesty charmed me no end..and truth be told after gardening
,lo' these many years, there's not too many mistakes I've not made . How
better to learn why you dont do such 'n such(for some of us reading the
no,nos just aint enough).Bet this will be one of your most memorable beds
in time to come.Keep growing to know ....
Connie
jeanne latta wrote:
> Every group has to have at least one airhead and ,in this group of
> dedicated gardeners, it has to be me. I live in a small town in
> northeastern Ohio on a small lot, about 50x150. Owing to the fact
> that this small lot has 9 oak trees, I have never had enough sun for a
> lovely perennial garden. (one does get a little tired of hostas,
> impatiens and begonias year after year). Over the past two years we
> lost three of our biggest oak trees to oak wilt disease and, lo and
> behold, I discovered that we now have a little patch of ground that
> gets a goodly amount of sunshine. " Eureka,!" says I," I can plant a
> little garden. "( We are talking here of a patch of ground about 24
> feet x 5 feet.)I got hold of some catalogues and pored over them and
> sent off my order. Last fall I killed myself getting the ground ready
> to receive the plants and by the time I was done adding peat moss, cow
> manure, compost etc. and digging and spading and all, I had the soil
> yummy enough to lie down in myself. The plants I ordered arrived in
> due time and I planted them and bought little markers to label them
> and then sat back and waited for spring to arrive and greet me with a
> glorious garden. That's when all my problems began.
> As things began popping up, I noticed some bare spots and decided that
> some of the plants hadn't survived the winter. (it never dawned on me
> that some things come up later than other things), so I rushed off to
> the local nursery and bought more plants to fill in the "bare spots".
> As April progressed into May, I began to notice that some of the
> plants I had placed in the front of the garden were way taller thn
> some of the things in the back of the garden. This brought to my
> attention that when the catalogue says "ht. 2-4 ft. that there is a
> vast difference between 2 ft and 4 ft. So I then began frantically to
> move things from the back to the front. About mid-may, some strange
> things began to happen. I had planted some shasta daisies to cover
> one of the "bare spots" I mentioned earlier. I discovered that I had
> some very strange foliage in my shasta daisies and it finally dawned
> on me that the things I had planted in the first place were coming up
> after all. Then of course I had to dig up the shasta daisies and cram
> them in somewhere else. I could go on and on with this tale but by
> now I'm sure you get the idea. At this point, I have no idea what is
> growing where. I have replanted and rearranged so many times that the
> little plant labels don't mean a thing. Everyday is a surprise. In
> my own defense, I must say that my foxgloves are truly magnificent.
> It will be interesting as the summer progresses, to discover what
> things are.
> I promise to heed all the advice you people offer and I promise not to
> offer any of my own as I don't think it would be too helpful.
> Jeanne in Ohio
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