Hello Primrose List

Hi, I am new to the list and have enjoyed reading the garden talk. I began more deliberate gardening with a bag of assorted asiatic lilies five years ago. I planted them in the soil under a rotted stump and was thrilled with their flowers year after year. The rotted stump is now an oval shaped plot in the front lawn. It get heavy sunlight in summer afternoons and I'd like to try different dwarf plants there.

You usually can't dig here. There is three inches of dark soil on top of rocks and sand. I spent five days slowly removing the rocks and deeply mixing the sand with peat, compost, and manure. This area seems terrific, water in my yard disappears in seconds all around but seeps slowly into the new black soil.

I am wondering if I need more sand. The new black soil has cracks and small areas of muck or orange sand. It seems fairly mixed, but truthfully I am in a bit of pain from all the work and did the best I could to mix it all up. I wonder if the lilies will grow in my new garden.  

Clair
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