Saturday, May 10, 2014

It's starting to look like a garden center run by crazies over here




Flower Market:

  • 3 Yarrow, red and yellow flowers- planted in the Bed of Neglect across the sidewalk
  • 2 Vinca Vines- maybe the wall planter? 
  • 1 Thunburgia - wall planter?
  • I feel like there was something else?


Lowe's (literally never stop improving)

  • 4 Creeping Phlox (light light purple, not the color I wanted, but on the clearance rack for $3) - not sure yet where to plant these.  I might give them to mom.
  • 3 Stella D'Oro Daylilies- in the front, but I need to think more strategically about that whole area 
  • 3 New Guinea Impatiens- in containers on the patio on the trellis.  Done.   
  • Sun Gold Cherry Tomato plant
  • Jalapeno plant
  • another trellis thing for pole beans


Wedgewood:

  • 2 Creeping Phlox, to match my candy stripe pink ones- will plant just in front of the existing ones.
  • 2 Echinacea (the regular purple-pink kind.  Probably should have gotten 3) - well, I was thinking it would go in the front bed, but now I'm kind of thinking the side bed needs some late summer flowers.  
  • 1 Mandevilla, the standard bright pink kind- planted in a larger planter with the beautiful obelisk, placed in the middle of the bed.  
  • A gorgeous obelisk trellis for the Mandy for only $30
  • 6-pack of small Coleus- in containers on the patio
  • a cocoa liner to fit my giant wall planter

Obviously I've gotten a little carried away.  I mean, I spent probably $500 so far.  As long as I actually take care of everything, I think it's justified.  

Still to do....
Raised Bed:  
  • plant tomato and pepper plants
  • put in new trellis frames, plant more pole beans
  • I pulled the flower buds off the chives so they'd keep growing... that's ok, right?
Containers:
  • transplant begonia bulbs to larger pots
  • transplant coleus to pots
  • plant nasturtiums in window box planters
  • water the Mandevilla
  • water the other containers
  • get more potting mix for the wall planter
  • figure out what to put in the wall planter
Side Bed:
  • Plant the new creeping phlox.  I want to dig up all the hyacinths as I'm doing this, because I don't like their current location.  I want them clustered in the middle.  
  • cut back camellia 
  • Figure out what the hell I'm doing.  The hostas in there are kind of a mix of things that don't makes sense together.  The fern, oh my god, that fern is so stupid there.  It's really getting crowded by the rhododendron and the hosta.  The thing is, he seems to be thriving.  
Front Bed: 
  • finish dealing with the tree-bush
  • plant new day lilies, figure out if and where to move the old ones.






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