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My new Perennial Bed Part 2 (Long)

Hello all,
My new front-of-house perennial bed is almost ready for winter.  I'm just
waiting for the arrival of a shocking number (for me!) of Spring bulbs.  

This past Saturday was a grey, mizzling sort of day - just the weather to
transplant perennials so they don't get completely baked before their
disturbed roots can get used to the new surroundings.  Having already planted
most of the smaller front of border plants last weekend (dianthus, candytuft,
campanula carpatica, rockcress, small sedums etc.), I moved on to
transplanting some taller and in some cases well established specimens from my
other border.  

I divided huge clumps of Shasta daisy and Coreopsis "Mayfield Giant" from my
too-small border in back and added a few divisions to the front border.  The
Coreopsis is still sulking from the treatment - it was quite a job to hack it
apart and very sad to sacrifice the last of those lovely golden flowers. I
also transplanted a Lavender Lady and some new shoots of my ever-spreading
Oenethera Tetragona into the new garden.

Due to the murkiness of the day, as I was digging in my horribly overgrown
back-yard border, I found and killed with immense satisfaction, well over a
hundred voracious slugs.  I can't wait for another grey day to attack them
again!  I must have actually made a dent in their numbers this time! 

Back in my virtually slug-free front border, I moved in nursling specimens of
Heuchera, Molina (grass), Rudbeckia, Echinecea, Campanula Persicfolia and
Makischvilii, Achillea 'Coronation Gold' and 'Rose Queen', Veronica Incana,
Perovskia Somethingorother, garden Phlox, Lupin, Salvia 'Blue Queen' and 'Rose
Queen' (unfortunately somewhat decimated by the damn slugs while temporarily
planted in back border) and something called Jasione Humilus (sounded
interesting) and then added 2 fully blooming 'Pacific Giant' delphiniums (one
pink, one blue).  I think that's about it.  I'm still planning to add Monarda,
more Heuchera and ornamental grass and some divisions of Sedum 'Autumn Joy'
and 'Brilliant'(which I can't bear to upset when they are blooming so
beautifully!)  Oh, what a garden full of promise!  Next year will be
marvelous!

Then it was Sunday - and it lived up to its name! While my husband and
visiting father-in-law relaxed on the shady front porch in the glorious Indian
Summer sunshine, I cleared out the remnants of this year's experiments from my
new heather garden (against the porch across the front walk from the new
perennial bed) and prepared to plant the darling little babies sent to me by
"The Heather Farm" in BC.  As companions to my 9 new heathers I left in 2
euonymous (one golden, one silver), a lovely little rock-garden grey creeping
juniper, a dwarf cedar and yew,  dwarf iris - oh, and a few rocks. I'll
experiment with a few other plants over the next year - any suggestions for
adding to the Scottish moors look?

Sorry to ramble on so long, but who else would appreciate my project like the
Perennials Mailing List?

Happy gardening, 
-Sheila

Ottawa, Canada (Zone 4/5)
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* Someday I will burst my bud of calm *
*     And blossom into hysteria       *
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