Mid-Atlantic Gardening: A place to show off your new additions, and spring changes!, 1 by critterologist

critterologist wrote:
It would be great if those flattened cases were mantis eggs -- because I sure seem to see a lot of them in my garden! I'll keep an eye out also, and maybe we'll be able to catch somebody hatching out... I've already seen a few baby praying mantis out and about -- too cute!!

Although I tilled and amended last year for this bed along my neighbor's fence, I think it still counts as a spring project for this year since I'm still planting it! I put in this double row of peonies this spring -- red ('Karl Rosenfeld'), pink ('Sarah Bernhardt') and white (offshoot from my mom's plant). Behind the peonies, I have a 'Zepherine Drouhin' climbing rose and several clematis, plus two clumps of 1 year old Rose of Sharon seedlings. I'll be filling in back there again this year with morning glories, maybe some sunflowers again too, but this time I will put in some 6 foot metal t-posts and some sturdy green mesh fencing for them to climb. (Last year, the plan was to have the morning glories climb the sunflowers, which worked great until we had one of those sudden wind storms, LOL... In the interest of being a good neighbor, I want to give them something other than my neighbor's fence to climb.)

Well, shoot, I thought I had a good photo of the peonies in the ground, but all I can find is this planting diagram and photo of the peony pots all spaced and ready to plant... There are some dwarf iris in front of the peonies, and I'll definitely be looking for more of those to fill in that border....