What have you bought so far ?? Part 6

Looks great, Bill. The deer (or something) got about 40% of my leaves.

I have abandoned my former edict "NO MORE PLANT"sign on the computer.
Went to the Bluestone sale and bought:
Anthemis
Monarda, red and pink.
Armeria "joy stick white"
Aster woods purple,and purple dome
HOSTAS:
Big Daddy
Blue Cadet
August Moon
Frances Williams
Gold Drop
Guachamole
CHINESIS looks like a orchid
Lamium White Nancy, Golden Anniversery
Tiarella; Pink Brushes, cordifolia

victor sorry to hear about that - 40% - i would not be happy - the deer did that to a frazier fur a few years ago and i almost bought a rifle.

nice ge - the monarda really spreads after one year keep your eye on it. and if you want hostas check out - http://www.masonhollow.com/

Wha; I think you posted about your Monarde this AM.
THATS why I bought it. I loved it in my neighbors garden. and I have seen it in the wild. What a treat bright red in a field of green.

beni kawa - posted on another link incorreclty

they like water and give it room - i was dissappointed in y1 - the next spring it was everywhere - i just let the plant fall over and did not do a fall clean up and it all rooted. had to dig up most of it because it was pushing out cardinal flower, black eyed susan's and coneflowers. I'm sure yours will do great. I had to move a draft crap tree because it got taller than advertised and threw off the balance of the bed.

Thanks for the tip, I'll definatly deadhead.

ge, I went to Bluestone too. I bought :

LUPINE Yellow Shades
HOSTA Royal Standard
PENSTEMON barbatus Rondo Mix
PHLOX paniculata Nicky
TRICYRTIS Tojen
RUDBECKIA hirta Prairie Sun

Looks like a great selection.

I ordered 5 cranberries and three grapes from Raintree and Leek sets and Jeruselum Artichokes from Vermont Seed company. Anyone have advise on planting leek sets?

yankee cat - i started mine indoors and will plant this weekend. Plant a lot of them. wife and in-laws who we share the garden with laughed when I said there were 100. none of them went to waste.

Cat, cranberries? (Picturing you out there in waders with one of those butterfly net thingies after you've flooded your bog. . .)

Not the bog kind - the grow-under-bigger-things kind of cranberries. I'm thinking about putting them under the black elderberries where the wintergreen is not doing so well. Or not. I have lots of room for "ground cover" kinds of plants.

I am also looking for ground cover sorts of plants.
I have "inter planted" Campanula porsharsky "blue falls" with Oriental lilies and iris in one area and with Columbine and painted fern in another.
I have ordered Tiarella for the shade garden but want something else wandering type.

Victor likes hellebores for ground cover. Lily of the Valley makes good ground cover, too - they just look ratty in the Fall.

went to get inpatients for this weekend and two tree poenies and another came homw with me.

jm - orangeola

jm - autumn moon

both these jm came from Forest Farm and are larger than the two posted here today from Wildwood. All were advertised as 3 ft. price for trees were similiar. frieght at wildwood was MUCH less by $50. still real happy with these two.

ge1836, sweet woodruff is an excellent ground cover. It's not very tall, has a nice, neat clean habit and the foliage is always pretty even when it isn't blooming. It doesn't kill off other plants the way lily of the valley can. I love the fragrance of LOV but it's destroying a couple of my gardens right now and it's very hard to pull. Unless it's by itself, it can very much be one of those "careful what you wish for" plants. I'm getting several swap packages ready to go out Tuesday and have lots of both if you're interested, just let me know.

Hey Bill - stop getting all my JM's!! I agree about both hellebores and sweet woodruff. I lost most of my sweet woodruff to dryness one year. I hope to try it again in my new shade garden. It's also deer resistant.

thanks guys. you always come thru for me.

seems parkseed is still hit or miss... i wrote them today... three items are either dead or dying

but another order arrived today

http://davesgarden.com/community/blogs/t/onewish1/8939/

Victor stop posting good looking JM's and i'll have money to pay for heating fuel this winter!!

Hope you don't use oil!

I pretty much have an endless supply of sweet woodruff. There is a little bit in each bed, lots of it around several trees, and this bed is covered almost entirely with it - it even competes with the myrtle!

Wow - beautiful!

12 more Hostas
1 Antioc
2 Francee
2 more Frances Williams
3 Golden Tierra
4 tokudama Flavocircinalis
There is a lot of space in the back of the shade garden

total next 4 pics is 35 feet

still going down the row

anybody bored yet?

I'll skip a few.This is the end where I want Butterfly bush and a Rhody. There are Daylilies in front of the resident Hosta.

Pixie and other fairy-o-philes, I just learned there are lilacs named Sugarplum Fairy and Tinkerbelle! Very hardy.

Thanks for the info Carrie....will be on the look out!!

Park seed annoys me. The only time I ordered from them they canceled part of the order and shipped a sub, both of which they didn't tell me. The plants were for my whiskey barrels and I'm real picky on colors matching the house. So when they subbed pink for yellow I lost it! How completely annoying!!! They also didn't include any planting instructions or pkg list.

Sounds like a post for Garden Watch Dog.
How could anyone substitute pink for yellow, outrageous.

I was incorrect when I said the shade garden was 35 feet long.
I am smitten with the Bluestone 1/2 price sale and want as many Hosta as I can fit in ,they're going for about $5.00 each, this includes the giants like Big Daddy and August Moon.
I measured to be sure I bought enough and the length is 72 feet. You can bet at least 15 feet of this is Butterfly bush and Rhodies on one end and Acer Palm w/ Rodies at the beginning.
In this whole expanse there was only one hosta and an Astilbe, don't know what color yet.

I think I posted it, I'll have to check.
They really must have been color blind.

Jo Ann, that is going to be one beautiful area in a few years! What a lot of love and work is going into making that garden. Amazing!

I hope everybody posts pictures - you're going to have some really gorgeous displays!

What ever happened to the "Long View" thread?
Guess it makes sence to post a double everymonth with the previous months area to see the progress.
My family thinks I'm nuts.
I have never taken so many pictures, kept so many records writtin and visual, there is definatly a focus here on the garden.
I should be painting flowers but I'm obcessed w/plants.