Fall Planting, so what's on your list?

Pixie, yes, I do like spiders and doubles. Can you tell? ;-)

Actually, I like all kinds of daylilies, though spiders and UFO's are a particular favorite this year.

Karen

I've been busy, forgot about a "buy early and save" order from Blooming Bulb. What was I thinking? I forogt about them completely and even bought a bag of mixed Hyacinth, 'Daydream' tulips, and Daffodill 'Ice Follies" because I couldn't live w/out em! Ha! I must of REALLY wanted them because in my order from B. Bulb I had ordered 15 of I.F. already!!!!

My Order from Blooming Bulbs: (BTW, VERY nice bulbs!)

15 (more) Daffodill 'Ice Follies'
5 Tulip-Double Early Carlton- 'Abba'
5 Snowdrops
25 Glory of the Snow Chionodoxa
Crocus:
15 Blue Pearl
10 Purple
15 Picwick Striped
15 Prins Claus
15 mixed bag

I just got 2 out of the last 4 shipments from the LA. My last hosta order I got earlier in the week from Jack and Gary at Naylor Creek...I am going to try to visit them somtime in the future!

Pixi, I received a DL as a bonus that you have in plant files: Kalahari Jewel. The person who sent it to me sent me a 5-7 fan clump.

This is what I received in the mail today: TF of 'God Save the Queen,' TF of 'Purple Umbrella,' bonus of 'Rock Solid--DF,' the clump of 'Kalahari Jewel,' clump of 'Lies and Lipstick,' and a clump of 'Coach's Pride.'

They were all purchased/sold as double fans...I'm excited!!!

(I posted this on the DL forum, but will post here, I'm stoaked about this :-)

Lucky you Thom!! Nice Haul!!!!!
I do have 'Kalahari Jewel' and Love it! I also have 2 seedlings that im nurturing from 'God Save the Queen'.
'Lies and Lipstick' is really nice but I have been eyeing 'Rock Solid' for well over a year! Lucky, lucky you!!

I just got my DF of 'Popol Vuh' and it was 2-DF= 4 in all!!!

Sheepers order: peony 'Do Tell' , I. reticulata Harmony (replace old ones), Daff. Decoy , species crocus. I used the last to make the order minimun--try can be scattered anywhere. I have wanted that peony for some time & at last found it on the regular catalogs I used. I really don't need any new catalogs. Order will come in early Oct.

I would post what I'm getting from Ken Johnson, and Cheryl Day, but I will wait until I actually get them in the mail. So far, due to the fact that I bid/won some of Ken's seedlings, I'm up over 30 DL's from him alone! ---I went off the DL deep end this year :-)

I'm hoping that the year of 2010 I can start to actually make some money on the DL's that I have and start turning my passion/hobby into a career!

I purchased 2 tree peonies this year, the one might not bloom until 2010 (Kinkaku) the one that I just picked up at Well-Sweep for the NJ RoundUp, might bloom next year, fingers crossed. The 3 'Bartzellas' that I picked up, atleast 2 of them should bloom next year, the other one I don't think will bloom until 2010...if it does bloom next year, I'll be shocked!

I have a few bulbs that I ordered (have to send the check for them) but they are daffs, and alliums. I'm going to try and find as many species tulips as I can in the box stores, with some muscari mixes, and do a border going down and around the new bed, nothing to write home about, but it should look nice next year!

Watering and weeding today :-)

All those lists have me drooling--I'm not planting very much this fall due to space & budget constraints, but I have planted DL Purple Pawprint (thanks, Pixie), DL Outrageous Lavender, Olallie Lavender, & Vivid Violet--sort of getting into the purples, DL Cherry Valentine, & TBI Cherub Pink, Purple Flag tulips, & whatever tulips & daffs that Pixie sent. I live fairly close to Van Eng. & Scheepers---you can't go in, just a warehouse, but I did a double take when I saw a huge papier-mache tulip in front of the building--then I realized it was the bulb place---they do have a nice planting of tulips there in the spring.

Nice looking DL's, Hem. I just placed an order with Brown's Ferry Gardens for DL's. Here are the ones I ordered.

BOLD SECRET
DOUBLE LAYER
ARCADIA PLANTATION
PICK OF THE LITTER
RAINBOW DRIVE
ANGEL IN DISGUISE
PINK COTTON CANDY
SHERRY LANE CARR
FORSYTH NATCHEZ

And for a bonus I'm getting SHOUTIN' THE BLUES. They are shipping the order out on Monday. I have a lot already to plant. I better get cookin'!

Karen

Our budget just doesn't call for anything new right now, so perhaps it's a good thing. But we (that is, Anna is), are moving a lot of plants around. We noticed how some might do better in a better location, and so we have planned on a big 'moving weekend'.

But, I still can't resist looking at all the catalogues and wishing and planning!!

I still have the gift certificate/voucher from the AHS to use, and haven't used it yet. I might try, and I believe Brown's is a DL grower that accepts the voucher.

I received Sherry Lane Carr as a bonus DL from a auction win, it's a pretty DL!

Good haul also.

Candyce, I just moved a whole hosta bed around. And I will, as time goes on, try to plant the hosta to give them some "growing room." I had purchased 'Krossa Regal' two years ago, and it was in a little 4" pot, this year it's about 4' around and was pushing other things over, and sheltering any light getting to it's hosta brethren. So I moved and expanded an area by a few feet. I almost forgot that I had things there due to the size of this large hosta. That's what I've been doing for the past month is moving, all of my DL's that were out front, are now going out back to the new bed, and all of the new hosta are going where the DL's were.

It's work to make room for more work, to make room for more work.....

lol.

LOL!
But you are soooooo right!

You are definitely right! Always making new beds, and then there are constantly old beds that need redoing, either because plants are crowding each other out, there's more shade than there used to be, I need to add compost, etc. Never much time to sit and relax and just enjoy it all. I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't like it, though.

Karen

I "have" to move plants around every Fall - just something I gotta do, kinda like moving furniture I guess! This year's big move was the black-raspberry canes (brambles) - they were in a prime flower spot!

My aunt is giving me a bunch of Irises for an early b'day present this year - don't know which ones yet.

I got a couple of 'Starship Enterprise' irises from Schreiner's. And some 'Becky Lynn' daylilies - my youngest dd's name!

I found a Blue Vervain in the field behind the barn and moved it into a bed. Also, had dh dig up some (more) Joe Pye Weed from the roadside.

Sue, I know what you mean about the 'brambles'. I have black raspberry and red raspberry canes, and have been digging them out to plant flowers. What a chore!

Karen

wow... you guys are good... my list is small this year.... just 8 roses... and so far that's all I will get... I got so many DL from Pirl and about 90 irises from the coop... so I have sooo much to finish planting!

My neighbors have red raspberries growing 10 feet away from my shade garden.
There are always little berry plants in my garden.
Do these come up from seed?
I yank them right away lest they get established and put down deeper roots.
I'll Preen in the spring for sure.

Joann I think they come from runners - mine spread way out from where I have them, I dug out a lot in the spring, and gave them away. And then I just started cutting off the canes. I never tried to yank them out because of the runners, they are even tough to dig out.
Maybe they start from seeds too, and those would be easier to pull.

Roses, Kass? Shocking! My huge shrub order comes later this week.

I have blackberry canes in my compost area--the canes look great, but no blackberries ever appear! I guess the bearing canes must freeze over the winter.

Really should cut back the b. canes, they are a pest--haven't done it as yet.

Its Official = Its Fall now.

I have soooo many anonymous dayliles to divide! I knew what they were when DH planted them, but he didn't know it was important and i thought he'd remember or the other way around. Anyway, none of them were big names, so it's all good, except they need dividing in the worst way. We did harvest compost from the Compostumbler for the first time; a success.

Yes, raspberries are notorious for coming up from runners, and impossible to get all the roots out. They go really deep, seems like. Even after double digging my beds I still have the blasted things coming up. I just keep taking the new growth off, and eventually they will die, I suppose, from lack of being able to feed themselves through photosynthesis. I know farmers who grow them keep them under control by mowing them down.

I'm thinking of buying an oakleaf hydrangea. I was eying one today at a local nursery. Their shrubs were 40% off, so I think the price after the discount was $22. I still have a 'Wine And Roses' weigelia to plant, as well as a 'Tiger's Eye' sumac. Gotta get them in soon.

Karen

I've been digging out many invasive orange DL's & some old iris that are not very colorful. I'll see if HD has any iris today that I can replace with.

I just dug up a bunch of those invasive DL's. They keep coming back from the smallest of roots.

Karen

just found this thread - the mile long wall does have some minor udates from what was there before. So far i have two vibrinum - korean spice & blue muffin - these will go by the beginning of where i started - a callicarpa where i am finishing up. i moved and eastern redbud to the front corner by the road (it is a large one and struggling, hoping for the best watering twice a day) replaced with a golden hearts ? red bud. there is a hole in teh middle of the roses bushes that had BES that i moved to off the road out front. between to pick roses and suggestions?

i've also planted "my monet" weigela, a bunch of primrose including drumstick, wedding bells campanula, two diff brunnera, sedum fuldaglow & fulda glow, siberian bugloss, woodland phlox, kaleidoscope abelia, 2 miss kim lilac. for bulbs i have a few hundred plain daff's to go on a hillside that gets new spring sun due the the home built across the sreet.
i have my eye on some more hosta and then who knows................

My large Fairweather order should arrive today.

always a good day victor - i have a small replacement order of rasberries coming and a yellow clem sometime in Oct.

So far, no ordering for us. It feels kind of strange to not be aniticipating the arrival of the UPS truck this fall.

Candyce, it will be "Christmas" soon enough for you at your RU.

Everyone sounds like their gardens will be full of new goodies soon.

Carrie, I need to divide DL's too and move some.

Thom, where do you find room for all your plants? Great list of new hosta and DL's

Wha, I can't wait to see the "Great Wall of Pepperell" come spring with your new plantings. I need to look up a couple on your list too. sedum 'fuldaglow' and s. fulda glow

Victor, I am green with envy over your order of of Witch hazel 'Robert', the Baptisia lactea, and especially the J.M. 'Tsuma gaki',, Viburnum 'Emerald Triumph'and the V. 'Chiquita'.

I don't know what these are ( Aesculus parviflora, Calycanthus 'Michael Lindsay', Eleutherococcus 'Variegatus') so I am off to check them out in the Plantfiles.

I have planted today

cornus alba 'elegantissima'
callicarpa 'early amethst'
sambucus niger 'lacinata'
rosa wichuriana
brunnera 'hadspen cream'
ilex opaca 'w.m. hawkins'
aster 'winston churchill'

We are heading back to the nursery to look at some evergreens later today. I got 3 more boxes of bulbs in yesterday, but won't be planting them until mid to late Oct. The ground is too warm still. Patti

Patti, I like that sambucus.

Hi Patti and welcome back. Have not seen you post for a while. I am looking forward to the order. You have some winners in your list too. Wish I wasn't running out of room!

I went to the nursery, but they were having a huge party for all the landscapers so we didn't stop. We will go back tomorrow if it isn't pouring rain, though we need that more than I need more plants.

Victor, room isn't my problem, but the ability to do all the work is getting a tad too much at times for us to do it right. Though I am nearly done with adding to the beds in size which will mean far less work this year. Honest. Or at least I hope so.

We are having some house painting done and the painter is originally from Nepal. He is going to bring me seeds of some of his beloved Nepalese vegetables that he is now growing on Nantucket. I can't wait. I just gave him a pile of hot peppers. He was very excited to see my endless stream . I am going to be adding a few ferns to it this week and anything else I see that is special.

I have a mess of Peonies coming soon and I am still planning on adding a group of Ilex verticillata and another group of Cytisus this fall. Maybe a viburnum or two. I keep eyeing that J.M Shirazz that Wha posted about at the nursery and they have a 20% sale going on now. They have some beauties. DH has a birthday this weekend. Dare I ? I think I must. Out to scope out a special site for it. Patti

go for it Patti!!

How's it looking now, Bill? Starting to turn yet?

Patti--everything is going in the new bed. Almost everything...well, pretty close to everything. lol

I have a hot bed that I use to overwinter things, or if not overwinter, to grow my tuber type veggies. Basically I took 8-4x4 posts, and used them like Lincoln Logs. I filled it with bags of shpagmum peat moss, green sand, dehydrated manure, play sand, and pro mix. It's a little under a foot deep. Super friable, and I haven't killed anything yet in the bed, and it's been going strong for about 7 years now. Any of the DL's that I have that won't fit into my new raised bed, will be going in the hot bed. I'm building another raised bed, it will run parallel to the one I built this year, next year. I just can't see moving another few ton of stone this year!

Victor, I'll be making my shrub order for the other raised bed next year...I really don't want to commit to something I know won't get done until next year :-/

I have another slew of DL's coming. There was a sale going on the LA. Gavin Petit was selling away all of his DL's as he was getting a "real" job and not needing the sale of DL's to help him support himself through collage any more...lol. I didn't win that bid, but I did email him and ask him if he had any singles left, in which he would be willing to sell me. After emailing back and forth, he sent me a list...so, beside the Munson's I'm getting from Cheryl Day, and the DL's I'm getting from Ken Johnson, Gavin Petit is sending me (he promised these are all 2-3 fans, sometimes more) the following:
Aloha Hawaii, Breaking with Tradition, Metallic Butterfly, Blueberry Lemonade, Passion in Paris, Venetian Royalty, Memories of Paris, Zinfidel Blush, Oceans Eleven, Gerry Frankenberger, Eternally Grateful, Turn the Kaleidoscope, Infinity and Beyond, Fire Down Below, As Time Goes By, Spectacle of Wealth, Aztec Headress, Shanghai Parasol, Nocturnal Butterfly, Entering Warp Speed, Majestic Heir, Matriz Reloaded, Monday Morning Blues, Cedar Key, and Nature's Poetry.

Most of them are '05-'06 Petit intro's, some are earlier from '03-'04, and there are 4 that are earlier intros. I was super UBER excited when he emailed me back. With the amount of DL's that I have, and my veggie garden will no longer be a veggie garden after this year, it will be my DL increase/hold over area, I plan on trying to make a go at making some money off of the DL's in the next 2-3 years! It definitely beats doing what I currently do :-)

Patti, that sounds like a birthday present I got for my father when I was a little girl. He was surprised to open it and out came some paper dolls. I was sure he would like them - and if not, I knew someone who would. tee-hee
I'm sure your DH will LOVE his present.

Thom, I'm jealous, all those DL's your getting! I've gotten a lot this fall myself, but still..... there's always room for more.

Karen