good and bad news from my garden.

Well folks, the good news is that my water garden is in.  For anyone who is 
interested in the pictures, they are in the "Lowe's Pond" photo album at:

http://communities.msn.com/picturesfromNancy/PhotoAlbums

I have been pretty much worthless all weekend, because I keep going out to 
check on it!  I have some plants, hardy and tender, that I'll have to do 
some more reading up on winter care of. (boy, what a bad sentence!).  But it 
will add a whole new dimension to my gardening.

Now, I'm thinking (always dangerous) that maybe I could use some of the 
spaces in between rocks for a rock garden.  If I were to make a mixture of 
soil and gravel, and tuck it in between the rocks in the dry areas, would 
that work?  Do all rock garden plants need lots of sun?  This spot has about 
a half day of sun.  My little hakonechloa that I've been nurturing all 
summer are supposed to go out there to cascade over the rocks.  But my 
plants are so little, and those rocks are so BIG...they may have to live 
somewhere else for awhile.

So, water gardening and rock gardening...a whole new opportunity.

Now for the bad news.  When the gentlemen brought the rock in, they 
evidently used a sled to drag them.  And chopped off a lot of my perennials 
in the process.  Fortunately, I had moved some to make room, but I guess it 
wasn't wide enough.  Now I have some little short sticks poking up where 
there was once malva, Russian sage, centranthus, stachys...and I have no 
idea where the columbine was.  What do you think, will they come back?  Or 
do I just need to plan to replant the whole area?

I do believe this project has helped a lot in the past week.  You're right, 
the garden is a wonderful place for peace and reflection.  Thanks to Don, 
for inspiring the sign my husband is currently making for the water garden.

Nancy Lowe
Arkansas, zone 7



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