Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening Summer 2013 Part 2, 2 by CatMint20906

CatMint20906 wrote:
hi, Typ. According to this, the best time to move a JM is late winter/very early spring.
http://www.japanesemaplesonline.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/hom...

My experience is that yarrow definitely does well in dry conditions! It's one of my more drought-tolerant plants and loves full sun, heat, and space to bush out. Unfortunately, I haven't given mine as much space as they would like, and it's been hard lately with all this rain to give them as much dryness as they want! Remember that heat wave we had a couple weeks ago? My yarrows were about the happiest looking plants in my garden when that was going on, and that was when the younger one finally started sprouting up on me.

I have two of them right now: a pink one Achillea millefolium var. rosea "Island Pink", and a red one Achillea millefolium "Strawberry Seduction".

Here's my Island Pink--squished between my Sedum and the volunteer Celosia which is huge now. It has bloomed continuously for weeks now, but would really like more room to bush out.

Also my Strawberry one, bushing out nicely now since the heat wave and just beginning to blossom.

The plant that I struggle with is Agastache--not sure why, but the acid-loving plants in a couple of my beds all seem to be flourishing less than the other plants, so right now I'm putting some Holly Tone in with them to see if that helps them.