RE: good and bad news from my garden.
- Subject: RE: good and bad news from my garden.
- From: M* D*
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 16:29:40 -0700
- Importance: Normal
Nancy, I wouldn't give up hope for your broken off perennials. I have just
finished cutting back (hard) perennials in pots in the nursery. They will
send up a new flush of foliage that looks fresh and nice. Unless, of
course, you are due to have a hard freeze in the immediate future.
Congratulations on finishing such a big project. I know you will enjoy it
for many years to come.
Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon
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From: owner-perennials@mallorn.com [owner-perennials@mallorn.com] On
Behalf Of Nancy Lowe
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 4:03 PM
To: perennials@mallorn.com
Subject: 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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