Northeast Gardening: End of season report card, 1 by rcn48

rcn48 wrote:
Wow, it's been a month and I'm just getting around to reporting in! I love this thread, it's giving me plenty of ideas for the new sunny border I'm planning for next spring. I already have a few Daylilies planted along the edge so now I'm making notes on some of the beauties you've posted here!

We've just experienced our second summer of serious drought and it's been pretty tough on the gardens. Maybe tougher on us to try to keep everything watered! I finally got all my new Euphorbias planted but it was so late in the season I'll have to wait until next year to report successes and failures. So far they're looking good but I'm anxious to see how they'll pull through the winter. A few of them are questionably hardy here but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we will have another mild winter to help them get established. Tasmanian Tiger is probably the most iffy, but I fell in love with the variegation and hope it makes it!

Caryopteris 'Snow Fairy' continues to be one of my favorite variegated plants in the garden. Slow to take off in the spring but makes up for it by the middle of the summer and by September is covered with tiny blooms!