Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening #4 - July 11, 2014 and beyond, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Yesterday--after work--I decided to take apart the big planter in the WS bed.

GOOD GRIEF!!!! I hacked away for over an hour trying to get everything out
in a salvageable condition. SO many lessons to be learned--but I never do!!!!
This was a big pot--maybe 16-18".

I planted in it:

-the small, pink Canna in the middle--(this made nasty roots!) Nothing cute about it!

--Two 4" pots of Asparagus Fern--wanted something trailing...
(these made roots to the bottom of this pot and those water-saving
nodules all over. Big!--the size of large grapes. Nasty!)
I, finally, pulled/dug out the two ferns and, I know!, each will make a nice HB.

--A couple of Dragon Wing begonias--(always good bloomers!).

--Had a couple of Osteospermum Daisies in there (these got obliterated--never bloomed)

--A couple of small, white, robust, trailing A...??...?. (these grew well and bloomed)

If I planted anything else in there--I never saw it.


Lesson!
MUST think ahead and plant just some annuals that do not have deep roots!
OR--plan to toss the whole soil clump in the pot in a compost heap. Bye..Bye...everything.


This is from July--everything still looks orderly....