Northeast Gardening: What have you ordered for 2009 - Part7, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
Wha, Yes lots of hosta thanks to your help at Mason's Hollow, and as you know, also a truck load of other stuff that I have been busy planting. I have only a couple left to plant in the morning.

I would have finished today, but the veggie bed needed major work, so that took most of the afternoon. Don't ever plant a veggie bed on sloping ground. What a pain! We will finish putting up the trellis and actually plant it tomorrow. Then I have some lily bulbs to get planted before I can start doing the containers. I hope to be caught up by Thurs.

I am driving down to NYC on Thurs. to pick up a big strapping friend who is dying to get out of the city for a week and come help move all the plants out of the greenhouse and do some brush cutting and play with our chain saws! He comes a couple times a year for physical therapy. I find lots of heavy work for him to do as Apt living in Brooklyn doesn't give him the outside work he craves. I am so lucky to have such a friend. I have to watch him like a hawk as he sometimes gets grand ideas about us planting a vineyard or making a giant pond with koi.

Anyway here is the list of most of the things that fell out of my truck when I got back from the mainland. Not listed are the veggies and some annuals. Patti

Hosta Red October
Hosta Gilt By Association
Hosta Deane's Dream
Hosta Raspberry Sorbet
Hosta Rainbow's End
Hosta Cat and Mouse
Hosta Whiskey Sour
Hosta Louisa
Hosta Blue mouse ears
Hosta Designer Genes

Leptodermis oblonga
osteospermum terra cotta
2 astilbe perkeo
Cornus canadensis
cordalis ex dufu temple
dicentra gold heart
tricyrtis ohsumiensis
Alternanthera ficoidea Partytime
Ptilotus exaltatus Joey
Ligularia Osiris Fantaisie
6 Lupinus the governor
6 Physostegia virginiana Crown of Snow
3 Oreganum White Anniversary
Petunia glow forest fire
6 Kniphofia Flamenco
5 Cytisus Lena
3 Cytisus Moonlight
Syneilesis aconitifolia
Tweedia
RhusTiger Eyes
6 Rudbeckia occidentalis Green Wizard
Xerochrysum bracteatum Sundaze Golden Yellow
Satureja hortensis
athyrium filix-femia frizelliae
Thalictrum Elin
Sulphureum Epimedium x versicolor
Iris cristata Tennessee White
Heuchera mystic angel
Heuchera Hollywood
Acer kashima
Acer branford beauty
Achillea tomentosa Aurea
Polygonatum humile
Dryopteris erythrosora Brilliance
Adiantum capillus-veneris Imbricatum
echinops bannaticus the giant
6 Alcea rosea Chater's Double Maroon
6 Lupinus noble ladies
6 Platycodon grandiflorus Sentimental Blue
12 Delphinium King Arthur
6 Digitalis purpurea Apricot
Cercis canadensis Hearts of Gold

And I planted 2 really nice Kerria japonica 'Pleniflora' tjhat were a gift from Wha which I am very happy to have. Thanks, Wha.

By the way Wha's garden is stunning. More rock walls than I had thought that are done with such care and expertise. He even has a large natural pond that he hasn't incorporated in to the grand scheme. Not sure why he hasn't gotten to that yet. Must be a slacker.... NOT and NO Weeds anywhere. Believe me, I looked. Lovely. Patti