Just not satisfied!

I have planted my garden, moved things around a few times, and yet I still don't like what I see. I'm also new to gardening, so I will have to partly blame my inexperience on this. Have many of you planted and replanted items from your garden? I always seem to be moving something about...

Sugarshokt
Not to worry that's how you learn! Sometimes things will click and others not. Enjoy your learning curve as that is when the %1 possibility will surprize you and your mind is not closed cause 'that plant is not supposed to be there'.

I haven't seen a gardener yet who leaves eveything in the same place all the time.
Ask here for help when you get stuck and you will grow along with your garden.
Talk to you !
Ann

Sugarshokt,

We all do it as the other Ann says. Sometimes a new plant won't reach it's full growth potential for a few years at which time you realize that it is in completely the wrong place. Or you get interested in new plants and need to make space for them. I move things around mid-season sometimes. (Sometimes it works, sometimes not). And if stuff gets overgrown, I sometimes get really brutal with it. It all makes good compost. Or you purchase plants which are mislabelled and look really funny where you planted them.

As Ann says, you will learn a lot my moving things around and observing what happens. You'll learn even more if you make notes about what you do (something I've never been very good ad, but wish I had), becuase then you'll be able to refer back to what worked and what didn't.

Ann from Ottawa

Gardening is outdoor decorating and we know how often we move stuff around and change colors inside, right. It is just more fun outdoors in the summer. That is one of the reasons Annabell52 and I plant so many containers. Decor on wheels. And here in the northern latitudes, sun patterns change dramatically from spring to summer and then fall; so moving helps the creatures enjoy optimum conditions. (NOT TO MENTION THE MOVING IN AND OUT THAT WE DO PRETTY SOON TO EXTEND THE SEASON - all us zone 3'ers)

Friends all call my garden the garden on wheels, because I move things around so much. Right now I'm changing my lily patches into cottage gardens. This means digging and moving quite a few lilies to make paths etc.

I've been making lists through the summer so I'll plant for all season colour. Was recently visiting an acquaintance with a huge cutting garden. A mass of colour. I def. need more annuals. Have to cut a few tree limbs too, for more sun.

Inanda

Ditto on the containers. Lots of containers. I'm also moving some of my older lilies this fall. Always trying new plants every year but some don't have a hope of blooming in my zone but you just have to try & some just don't work. I keep a yearly journal & take lots of pix to refer back to. I don't think any gardener is ever truly satisfied. That's part of the fun. Then there is DG where you can see other gardens & combo's. Great place to meet some great people.

Thank you for letting me know that I'm not the only one who can't decide what to do. I just purchased some bare root roses that I will be picking up in October, and I really don't know where I'm going to put them yet!! How many of you started with a garden plan? My b/f has said to me many times that I should have done a layout first, but I really doubt I would have stuck to it anyway!

Quess we are all the same, always moving plants here and there
and sometimes way over there,,

I just have too many plants that I have moved some to my friends garden out in the country,,
she now has a new patch of many hosta's

Wilma

I've been moving things for all of the 15 years I have been in this location! Professionals always say you should have a planting plan! My plan is to go to the garden centre, buy what I like or think I want, walk around the yard with the pot in hand to find a spot , plunk it down for a few days and then plant or move to another possible location. If it turns out the plant doesnt like it there(or more likely I dont) I move it. Ocasionally I have to wait till spring to do the move which is very frustrating (right now I want to switch a rose and a potentilla in my fron house bed and I know I shouild wait till spring but.....)
Ive just finished removing several large areas of ground cover that were put in some years ago to fill space and replanting . (and this in a garden that won awards last year!)
And things change over the years - an area in my back yard that used to be almost full sun is now part shade so I have to start moving things out of there too!

Ah but that is one of the joys of gardening - its like moving the furniture around or buying new (but I dont throw out the old, just post a message on the Hort Soceity chat line and they a re lining up at the door to get plants!)

Heres another garden pic. The willow bird feeder was a retirement gift.



carol

Ohhh, I like that bird feeder. Very nice, very unique.

I have the same style "garden plan" as you do. LOL, but I agree, as the plants change and grow, or don't grow well enough, then you must move them to other spots sometimes. It's fun and I enjoy it. I already have several plants I'll be moving to different spots in the next several weeks. As you have no doubt have found, it's usually an improvement when you all finished.

You certainly do have lovely gardens, carol :)

sugarshokt, you've heard the expression....."a garden is never done"...........that's why! It's like painting a picture, it can go on forever! hpy gdng..........Elaine