Fall cleaning, cutting blooming cannas!
Hi all - although I am in in usually rainy Oregon with Kari I
1) don't want it to rain (Kari how could you!!!!)
2)do minimal fall cleanup.
I tend to gather what leaves I can, before they turn to sludge with
rain, and compost them into new beds as a deterrent to weeks (well I can
hope can't I?). I have quite a few grasses in my perennial beds for
added curiosity and I leave them for the spring, encouraging birds with
seedheads and giving me something interesting to look at..
What I do try to do is clean a bit of garden every day! I spend 15 or
20 minutes wandering, pulling weeds, clipping back, deadheading and so
on each day, at least 6 days a week. Easier before I started working
again, sure, but it leaves me, at the end of summer, with a pretty clean
garden and without lots of backbreaking work to do.
We have been inundated the past couple of days will pine and Douglas Fir
needles that DH has been collecting with the mower and I have used for
coverage over my miserable cannas!
Someone mentioned cutting back blooming cannas! I can't imagine! Mine
performed so badly this year that what few blooms I have gotten are
there to enjoy. I am leaving them in the ground with a goodly amount
fir needles and bark mulch on top.
This is my favorite time of rear to move things, plant for next year and
think about the next project.
I have a haphazardly kept journal that tells me to move this or that -
this year its some unwisely placed roses. I hoped they would do better
in the perennial bed, but they got overtaken by perennials and never had
a chance.
These are Heirloom Old Roses that start sort of small, so I will move
them to a sunnier place.
I finally got my J&P Gazebos- on 68% discount! I bought 2 of them and
am constructing a seating area in my sunny south quarter acre that has
had minimal landscraping done for years and years.
This weekend, DH & I will get them up and I can plant all the clematis
and wisteria I have been collecting for the summer. I have gotten some
pretty good deals on smaller plants knowing they were going to have to
be babied for a few months-and I have-now they are ready to go out and
spend the winter well mulched and spring ready to grow next year. I hope!
elle in cedar mill orygun-Z8
Kari Whittenberger-Keith wrote:
> I clean up in fall rather than in spring because our winter rains tend to
> turn everything to mush and slime and I hate that.
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