Pacific Northwest Gardening: Help does anyone know of an evergreen ground cover that...., 0 by cocoajuno

cocoajuno wrote:
Wow it has been 2 weeks+ since I posted on here.

We here in Marysville have a water restriction beginning in June every year. According to the last two digits in your address is when you can water! We are allowed to water only every 3 days. In the extreme heat such as we have had the grass goes yellow very fast. I have a rain barrell and use water from that for tender or just planted plants as needed. If my rain barrell is going dry I just add water to it on water days, I also fill all 3 2 gallon watering cans and 2 five gallon bucket so I can water. So there are ways to help the small or newly planted plants.

Okay the changes.... My sister, brother in law and two of there friends arrived on June 30, we had a wonderful visit and I gardened and watered and we now have another person in my family interested in growing flowers. My sister just loved the gardens and took narrated video so she could go home and start some garden areas of her own. We took them to Leavenworth in the 106 degree heat, the people there told us it was the hottest day they had had so far...lol not what people from AZ want! We took them to Deception Pass, Anacortes, and LaConner. They took a trip to Stanley Park in Canada. They all left yesterday and boy is it quiet around here.

I have bloom in the greenhouse on my jalapeno and bell pepper plants. I have tomatoes on my cherry tomato plant, it is in the garden. I also have tomatoes on my Early Girl planted in the large tree pot.

I ordered, received and planted many salvias from Arkansas. I could not find the ones I wanted here so I went to Ebay. I purchased 3 times from the same person because the plants were so nice. I now have 6 hot lips, 3 red greggi's, a yellow sage, some purple/blue sages too. I also purchased baptisia, agastache, echinacea sundown and summer sky which I could not find in any of the nurseries here, a coral digitalis, a Silver sage, and a couple of brugmansias....lol....I am going crazy. I just received 21 new cultivars of tall bearded iris's yesterday I need to plant.

My dahlias are really growing and so are the glads. I have put some of my new blooms from the daylilies on that forum too. I am going to post some pictures today, these were taken a couple of days ago.

Thanks to all of you for your help with choices for the groundcovers, and for sharing pictures to help me decide what I would love to try in my gardens. I have had so much fun on this forum and feel I have made some good garden buddies!

Happy Gardening, Carla

Here is some of the pictures!