RE: Gardens & Weather

Ha!
	Great minds thing alike.... for the last few years I have been going
back and working in my shrubs and sub-shrubs. Actually removing a few of the
conifers that have been caught up in too much shade now and looking past
their prime. The native azalea walk is one good example. I have lost a
couple of mature trees and I am going back with carefully selected shrubs
that will give me foliage color and texture, blooms, fragrance and berries.
Viburnums are big on the list. Also hydrangea. However, beneath and in
between there remains the opportunity to get some new perennials.
	Don't think I have every worked higgledy-piggledy....my mind does
not work that way. If anything, it is the opposite... a touch too organized
and tends to fall into patterns even when I am trying for the opposite.
	
Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens,LLC
www.munchkinnursery.com
Garden Writer - Photographer -  Lecturer




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Jeaa0088@aol.com
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 9:48 AM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Re: Gardens & Weather

Hi, Gene:
 
Darn rain rarely does just what it's supposed to do...I think Mother  
Nature's laughing again. 
 
As to color in the garden, do you mean colorful perennials? in the  
beginning of my love affair with perennials, I higgledy-piggledy added
plants  and 
the spectrum was fabulous. But after a few years, something began to feel  
amiss...too few shrubs and other bones in the landscape...and too many  
flowers....and too little texture....so as perennials died out here and
there I  
added more bones and moved some of the flowers around to add  some zing here

and there. Then, I began to love the bones just as much  as the. Isn't it 
interesting how shrubs can be so colorful with nary a  flower in sight? Now 
I've ended up with mostly just my favorite perennial  bloomers plunked here 
and there for emphasis and tons of hardscape and  shrubs...it's very 
satisfying...my latest love is boulders...anyone want  to trade a front-end
loader 
for plants? 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/7/2009 8:06:25 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
genebush@netsurfusa.net writes:

Well,
I suppose one should be careful what they  complain about /wish for.
It started raining just after I sent the last  message. Darn nice rain
yesterday morning. Cleared up and then began again  last evening. Still at 
it
this morning. My garden has now been watered.  Thoroughly. In fact, rain is 
a
strong probability every day this week. May  catch up on my paper work yet.
I have been working on  clearing out a small area or two in my garden
where I have a bit too much  of any one plant....something took over an 
area.
At first it looked good,  now it is just too much. I look at it as exercise
and an opportunity to  purchase more plants. Perhaps put a bit more punch
into the garden in color  choices. In my addled old age I am appreciating
stronger color  more.
Is the desire for stronger colors in the garden come  with age...or
just me wandering around in my garden?

Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery &  Gardens,LLC
www.munchkinnursery.com
Garden Writer - Photographer -   Lecturer




-----Original Message-----
From:  owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On 
Behalf
Of  

We had a 'misting' yesterday.  Our prediction today is for a 70%  chance
of thunderstorms, but the sky is blue and the sun is shining.   I don't 
think it's going to  happen.

Chris

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