re:Airhead (not!)

Jeanne, you're not an airhead, you're just a new perennial gardener
discovering what works and what doesn't!  Sounds like in a very few
months you'll be VERY qualified to offer advice - especially regarding
how to organize a new garden.  I'm still a newbie myself (only been
gardening for 4 years) and every year I learn a million new things.
That's what makes perennial gardening so interesting.

I'm learning (for example):
- How close I can cram perennials together (and which ones thrive or
wither when crammed together)
- What colours look really awful together
- When NOT to transplant iris
- Over what periods of time I have nothing blooming
- How tall my mystery hardy geraniums are getting (REALLY tall) and what
they are blocking.
- That coreopsis 'Mayfield Giants' really sulks after being divided.
- That the peonies I thought were deep pink are almost white (but smell
heavenly!)
- how lovely purple allium and purple iris look together with
forget-me-nots blooming around their feet
- how much I like my many species of dianthus
- What the flowers look like on various maturing plants that haven't
bloomed for me before
- how much I like plants with interesting foliage
- how much better my garden looks this year compared to last!

Happy gardening,
-Sheila
Ottawa, Canada
Zone 4/5

Jeanne in Ohio wrote:

> Every group has to have at least one airhead and ,in this group of
> dedicated gardeners, it has to be me.
>
> [snip the lovely story of Jeanne's gardening experiences so far]
>
> 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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