Hope Springs
- On February 19, 2014
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It has been such a mild winter to date that a lot of our garden plants haven’t stopped growing and some of the perennials are making bonny clumps of fresh green growth, the problem being that, by the law of averages, we are bound to be in for a rotten spell of freezing weather. Here’s hoping that the easterly winds will be kind to us.
Today, we managed to clear the prairie bed of weeds and cut back the perennials. This border was made only last year but with copious amounts of garden compost used, the plants are supersized – crocosmias, kniphofias, heleniums, rudbeckias & geums are all thriving. As are the weeds of course – buttercup buttercup…..I will be pulling them out in my sleep. Although the perk of using our own organic garden compost is the free plants – toadflax, aquilegia, poppies & foxgloves as big as cabbages.
Some of the grasses are establishing better than others – the panicum virgatum – both Heavy Metal & Prairie Sky are doing well, others will hopefully thrive this summer.
Elsewhere, in the “front” garden, we have cleared the overgrown shrubs (planted 17 years ago) – pyracantha, cotoneaster & brachyglottis, which has left room for new plants!! Physocarpus Darts Gold & rosa Graham Thomas moved from elsewhere. The yellow flower on the right is Canary Bird, a wonderful early flowering rose.
Geranium oxonianum Rebecca Moss had outgrown her allotted space in this border (around the corner from this photo!) so we have moved some pieces to other parts of the garden, including shady areas which should work well – will keep you posted!
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