last planting
- To: "'perennials'" , "'shadegardens list'"
- Subject: last planting
- From: S* C*
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:30:16 -0500
Well, the equinox is past and it's time to get a perspective on
what's done and what's left for next year, but what a summer for gardening
we've had at our place. We rejuvenated our raised beds for rock garden
plants, refreshed the fern and wildflower bed with a mix of mushroom
compost, leaf mold, and peat moss, put in a new border all along the sunny
east side for tall perennials, took down old honeysuckle bushes along the
north fence and put in new shrubs and perennials there, and built a lovely
new partial shade bed in the north yard. We even divided the huge clumps of
siberian iris (after 5 years without division).
Wow! We just got the last planting in for fall before the big rain
started and the cold wave moved in. We finished putting in the last of the
perennials from the August Wisconsin nursery trip, the transplanting of
perennials that needed a "change of place" within the yard, the shrubs and
perennials from last week's visit to the local 40% off sale, the new spuria
irises that just arrived by mail, and even yesterday's purchases on the last
day of the sale <vbg>: two of those hybrid lobelias from Terra Nova--Ruby
Slippers and Sparkle Divine, a hydrangea serrata (sawtooth hydrangea) that
is double white, a BIG rhododenron mucronulatum, a Heuchera Pink Frost,
Campanula punctata Cherry Bells, Trollius europaeus superbus, Phlox
divaricata Lilac Perfection, Astrantia Hadspen's Blood, and a Lilium regale.
Now we're resting until the bulb order arrives!
Susan and David in Urbana, Illinois, zone 5b
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