Re: airhead

Jeanne,
I don't think there are many of us on this list that haven't made all
those mistakes and a few more.  Keep smiling you will end up with
a beautiful garden.
Heather on Vancouver Island

>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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