Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Spring Plant Swap 2014 Lucketts VA - Post Party, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
I have been outside since AM hauling with all kinds of "small stuff" to get it situated...
Finding room for this and that....getting distracted and doind something else....etc...
Doing the avoidance dance of actually tackling a whole bed and planting it with
the plants destined to go there.......Willl do at least one of them today. I promise....

Talk about "finding room"---I, finally, decided to dig up the big clump of Bigroot Geraniums.
One of the 'distractions'--but needed...
Of course--it is NOT like you can dig up one big clump! It comes apart in sections...
trailing old, straggly roots behind them. CAN'T throw these away!!! Sally, for one,
LOVES them! So--I potted up 6 lg. pots with several sections in each.
.NOT attractive (to me) straggly.. sprawlimg....
I really needed that corner of this bed for other things....
This Geranium just took up too much space in this small bed...
Done!

Now--the same ongoing mystery--3rd year in a row.....Geesh!

Some of you may remember I have talked about seeding Angelonias and then getting
Dwarf red Coreopsis--a pretty flower in it's own right--BUT I wanted Angelonias!!!
The seeds were labeled as such! BoooHooo---

This year--I seeded my double yellow R. Hirta--and bragged on here how they ALL came up!!
Hope I haven;t shared the seedlings with anyone--because, they are---one guess---
Dwarf Red Coreopsis!!! Bummer!!

I was looking forward to having ny Hirta in the back of a couple beds...--and I planted "them"
here and there---thinking how nice and tall they would look in the back--------HA!
I am digging them up now....I feel SO cheated!!!

I will just buy a couple envelopes of REAL Angelonia seeds and go with those...
It better NOT come up as Dwarf Red Coreopsis!!! A really pretty border flower--
with 1" satiny red blooms.

Look! How can anyone hate these? I just have a lot of them now...

G.


Glad I have some R. Indian Summer from Typ.