Are you ready Ohio????

Oh, good - the glasswork is still there? Great!

I am in Berwick just south of Bexley. Nice area neighbors etc. I have this new crazy neighbor Deb. You could call her family. She is great. She bought this house from an elderly couple that moved away and she is literally gutting the place. I help her when I can. She razed the yard too. It needed it. All she wants is grass for now. She took ou two full growm maples in the front and a huge silver maple in the back. 2 overgrown connifer in the back are next. I told her she could not come into my yard until I checked for chainsaws and roundup. Would be great to get a bunch of you over so we could either A guilt trip her about the trees or B hold her down while we made her yard over.

Surprise Gardener!

Look out Ohio gardeners!! Two good sales coming up:

Inniswood Metro Park
SPRING PLANT SALE
May 01 Sat 9 a.m.-4 p.m
May 02 Sun 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Do all your plant shopping on one day. The Inniswood Volunteers, the Central Ohio Herb Unit of the Herb Society of America and the Central Ohio Rose Society have a broad selection of perennials, annual and perennial herbs and miniature roses for sale. Meet at Innis House

Ohio State University/Chadwick Arboretum Plant Sale:
(The plant list on this one is so long it's scary)
http://chadwickarboretum.osu.edu/plantsale/plantsalelist.htm

Can you say "mini-round-up"?

Get thee behind me! Don't even have my loot from deMonye's in the ground, LOL! They are in nice pots, at least, and it's been cool and rainy.

Hey GW -- I have only 1/3 of my DeMonye's stash in the ground. I do however have everything transplanted into nice little peat pots; they are loving them! Once the shade garden is complete, I'll post pictures. I will also post pictures of my new Hummingbird/Butterfly Garden! Yea!

I don't think I can squeeze in another plant, I am still am trying to find a place for my canna bulbs from last year. I do want to make it to the daylily sale this fall to see if I can find something new to add to the garden.

I must admit, none of my deMonye's plants are in the ground either (I did transplant them into larger pots). My brother took me to Darby Creek nursery yesterday to spend some gift certificates he had, and my order from Green Mountain Transplants hasn't come in yet. So I shouldn't even be thinking of more plants right now. I'm a baaaad girl.....

Did everyone's plants survive the frost last night?

I am almost done planting my 27 or so different deMonye plants. I gave away some, and planted a few at my MIL's front yard.

Were some of you talking about Dittany of Crete?
I find that I have that one - picked it up at the Lewis Mt Herb festival last fall. After I saw the label, I have started some cuttings, you can have some if they make it.

Would like to go to the OSU Chadwick Arboretum sale, but we are already going to Cols for the weekend of the 15th - yearly Powell Pancake breakfast and plant sale that we are contributing plants to. That is where some of our extra tomato plants go to.

Esther, I am looking for Dittany of Crete. I would love to get one if they survive. Did you bring yours inside for the winter? They aren't hardy here and mine didn't like being inside over the winter so it croaked!

The flowers on the one I had were a lovely pale pink and looked so pretty with the grey-green foliage.

Anybody who was at deMonye's sale and then went to Lupy's please check this out. If you took any of the plants I brought labeled 'campanula bluebells' and they have tiny white flowers, destroy them! GW just emailed me and said it is actually garlic mustard which is a weed. I can't believe I bought and paid shipping for a weed! I got it last year but it didn't bloom until a few days ago. Unfortunately I can't remember where I got it. LOL

The plants labeled campanula portenschlagiana are fine so if you took some of those you don't have to worry about them.

It made me laugh aloud, the kind of humor only a gardener can truly relate to! I thought, "gosh, that looks like garlic mustard in the island bed - I can't believe I missed that." Up I yanked, and there, nestled in the soil beside it, was Candy's neatly-written plant tag.

I can see how the leaves might be taken for a campanula, though. http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/P160707.HTM

Candy and GW,

I am rolling in laughter. I was lucky enough not to plant it yet, but it was one that I transplanted into a peat pot. It is doing so well, it grew 4 inches overnight. I just looked at it today, and was about ready to put it in my border. I am so glad that I checked out this thread first!

Candy,

I have plenty of time on my hands now. I was actually outside yesterday, planting in the rain. Like I always said, "It never rains when I am at work, but as soon as I get a day off, it pours!" Well, now that I'm off for good, look out central Ohio -- the floods are coming! LOL.

Dave

Oh don't say that Dave- my back yard is already under water. That's why I am so experienced with plants that can take sopping wet/cracked cement conditions! I know you have similar areas in your yard so whenever you are ready to put some plants there, email me and we can set up a time for you to come get some. (I swear that all those plants will be true to name.) Just make sure it has been dry for a few days (if that ever happens). I hate digging up plants that are underwater. LOL

I am glad you caught the 'garlic mustard masquerading as campanula' plant before it went in the ground. Mine is really big and lush since this is it's second year....GRRRRR.

GW, does it spread mainly by seed or is it one of those plants that will regrow from a tiny piece of root?

Just visulize the ribbing when I noticed a particulary robust pepper it really responded to the water misting and the nice 18 hours of light . My BIL who can't grow any thing unless it has four leggs and moos says to me nice weed can you smoke it. I just started laughing when Linda comes in and wants to know whats so funny then tells me I wondered what you wer doing with that thing when I first saw it . I think she put it there in the first place. Any way I have some sunflowers growing out of a couple impatients. Ernie

Mainly by seed, Candy; those seeds are in the thousands if you have a couple plants, and they remain viable for something like seven years. They lurk in your soil until you turn it, and then spring to life - WHAM! Been there, done that! If we'd only put a pre-emergent beneath our fir trees last season like we did the year before, we'd not be battling this stuff now. It's tough, because some of the things I *do* want self-seeding (foxglove, centaura, daisies, catchfly, etc) are bordering that area.

LOL, Ernie - nice weed, right! You can eat the greens of garlic mustard. Want some for postage? ;)

Dave - heard about all the Cookers closing yesterday. Were you one of them that showed up and found the doors chained shut, or did someone call and let you know? That stinks! Will unemployment get you by in a crunch? I'd imagine there's jobs for a good bartender out there - we're pulling for ya!

Dave-
What are you looking for? Have some connections. e-mail me.

LOL, Ernie. You made me feel better. I especially like the sunflowers growing out of the impatiens!

GW, was it in your yard when you moved in or did you buy it from a nursery like I did?

Here I sit at work with absolutely nothing to do at 12:30 am. It is flooding outside because Dave is not at work and I can only wonder if all the planting I put out earlier this week are on there way down Livingston Ave on a raft of mulch. If the weather is still bad tomorrow I am going to go on a plant binge, since you all have so kindly added to the list of plant sales I try to but can't forget. I will spend so much, I will have to get yet a third job to support this ever growing habit! You can all rest assured that I am keeping your Scott's products in spec., at least on the weekends....AHHHHA! The 12 o clock sample finally arrives. Off to test we go.

Poor Cowboy...It's all Dave's fault, yes! Hey, why not? ;)

We are so thankful to live on a hill. There are a few spots in our yard which get muddy, but they're so because it's the path we use when we take the dogs out.

Can you believe that it is still raining (7AM).....I will get home to find a bog garden, rather than a shade garden.