Specialty Gardening: The end of my exuberant garden , 1 by pennefeather

pennefeather wrote:
Update:

I have begun the long backbreaking process of moving my perennials. It seems like everytime I move one, there is another one to move. I have moved lilies back several feet, and smaller echinecea forward. My large coneflowers that I moved out of the walkway in June, have now returned, but in the center, not on the edges, where they were looming over the walkway.

I actually expanded the bed (again!) about a foot in the hopes that I would be able to better space my plants, and to plan for the additional coneflowers I will be getting in the spring from Fairy's coop. Unfortunately, once I began to seperate some of the plants, I pretty much used up that additional space. I moved one clump of liatris into four separate areas. My lavender also was split into four places - it's hard to believe that these small bushes were the seedling that I planted two years ago.

Just a month ago, I was planning on removing some of the rosebushes, so that I would have more room for perennials. At that time, the bushes were looking sad. Of course today, everything is coming up roses. There are a lot of blooms considering that it is October. The fuschia zinnias and light pink roses are a nice combination.

Even with the lack of space, there are still new plants that I want to add. Spring is going to be interesting!