Northeast Gardening: FINALLY!, 1 by noknok

noknok wrote:
Pirl, thanks for the offer, Festiva Maxima is a gorgeous peony, though I've no place in mind for any just yet.
What I really need is poppies for the right red at that time, but any poppy I've planted just melts into the ground and is never seen again. What am I doing wrong??
I used to hate magenta. But massed with the lilacs and weigelas, then bringing dappled orange dahlias and canadian columbines into it, it became my most exciting area this year, I had a blast!

Candy I managed to miss Innisfree again this year. I did get to Stonecrop last year and want to go again. NEXT spring, d****t!.
The river stone was left over from another job, what comes out of the holes is mostly fist to breadbox size. I have a 6 yard pile. The really big ones went to the pond.