Northeast Gardening: Visions of Spring '08!, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
pixie, surely not. . or did I? I have Jolly bee, it is pure delight. And I once had a Carol Mackie, which I somehow killed so it is on my want list again, but I just haven't bumped into one at a reasonable price when I have had the truck off island. I can still smell it, delightful.

I am avoiding DL's this year as I need to move some that I thought the deer would not mess with as they are so close to the house in a precarious spot with a 4' drop to a stone terrace, but no, they waited until they bloomed and ate every flower one night. They didn't bother the foliage.

So now I need to replace those with something. Do deer eat snapdragons as I love them and they do so well here so late in the season. I need something simple in mass to plant along the edge of the wooden retaining wall. I could do a mess of New Guinea impatience in red for some color. North side, but lots of east and west sun. Here is the spot. I started out years ago with heath and heather which never did much and got woody and sparse eventually I took them out. The scrub oak is my baby. I dug it as a 2' shrub in 1982 and have trained it into a nice little tree. Ideas as the DL's have to be moved. What can cascade over that wall as a second need?

Pirl, I think I am afraid of sweet pea's too, though I did plant one last year? And I have one seed on my to order list for a place way away from most of the garden. Is that far enough. It is a chocolate color, how could I resist?

I do have a lot of bulbs planted in there, surprise, surprise. Patti