Northeast Gardening: Garden Photos - Part 19, 0 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
I love that picture of Ornamental Oregano libanoticum. I ordered a new one recently, but I think I would like that one too. I bought Origanum laevigatum 'Herrenhausen', but too small to tell if it is a winner yet. It was on sale.

Love seeing the DL's as mine are just barely starting here. NOID's mostly and nothing as exciting. Love that 'Wedding Band' one. Not sure how I feel about the hot pink one. But I did plant some daring ones for me that I hope bloom this year. I may get bitten by the DL bug and want them all. I use to "hate" glads too until 2 years ago. We planted 3 to 4 hundred last week. Ha.

No idea about that cool looking bug Thom posted.

Anitabryk2, we own a little over 2 1/2 acres but some of it is left wild, and some just maintained with my trusty weed whacker, which BTW needs a work out this week. We started it in 1981 when we bought the property while the house was being planned and built by selective pruning all the native stuff, but we didn't plant the first introduced plants until 1983. We had help with the initial planting, but that didn't include anything but trees and shrubs. No borders or walks. Those we added and enlarged over the years. I did the stream last Oct/Nov.

DH and I have been at it pretty much since, except for a 10 year period when I was not well or off island a great deal running a second business. Those years were just maintenance of what could survive without much work and could take the deer and rabbit invasion. Now since retiring we are at it full time with a deer fence protecting part of the garden and a lot of spraying. We have a lawn mowing service. We put back in a real veggie garden again this year after years without. I am hopeful, but the brassica have been being eaten by something lately.

Now that the planting is done, it is mostly weeding and tweaking. Yikes, I have some orangish lilies where they shouldn't be. Now I know some pink ones will be showing up in Aug in the "Hot beds". I will move them in bloom today. I love shrubs so my garden has many within the beds, thus it is less work as they take up so much space. I like seeing them in the winter rather than just bare ground, plus they give the lilies a good background, except in this case. Off to tweak. Patti