May 03, 2004
03:16 PM || Rose bushes are gone!
Yiiippeee! the hideous, spindly rose bushes have been removed from my west facing border. In their place, I'll be planting peonies, verbascum 'jackie', salvia san carlos festival, veronicas, geraniums and other good stuff. Pic to follow soon.
On a somewhat different note, I finally got to visit Lazy S's Farm Nursery this past Sunday on our way back from Charlottesville. While their entire stock wasn't out yet you can still get a feel for how large of an operation they truly are. Best of all these guys truly have some great unique and less common perennials for very reasonable prices. My next shopping spree will be this Fall when I place my mail order with them.
April 25, 2004
03:08 PM || What's blooming now
Actually, the Hellebore starting blooming in late February or so and still going strong. Once the heat kicks in it will drop its seeds. I'm still waiting for other plants to show up...
Now for the photos:
Hellebore
Trillium
Columbines
April 23, 2004
02:05 PM || Report from AHS Plant Sale
As always, I leave wishing I had bought more! LOL!!! But then again there's always tomorrow.
The vendors are great, friendly, quite informative and best of all a wonderful selection of hard to find plants. My favorite vendors were there again: Doyle Farm Nursery, Nature by Design and another I can't remember that's run by an older couple. The last one mentioned has gallon sized pots of Hellebores for about $12! Can't beat that. Sure they may not be the latest strains but who cares.
I picked up:
Goldie's Wood Fern
Indian Pinkroot
Maidenhair Fern
Hellebore
Pink Turtlehead
The first two mentioned vendors have loads of natives: Squirrel corn, Ginger, Hepatica, Ladie's Tresses, etc....
If you can stop by today or tomorrow.
April 19, 2004
03:59 PM || Another season
Everything has begun poking their heads through the soil - at least that I can remember. Funny though, I have tons of plant labels from last year's purchases and I have no idea where I planted them. Hopefully I'll be to identify them later.
For now, I'm concentrating on the very front beds. I've removed the nasty Liriope and some Irises. I'm planning on planting some Astrantia, Hellebores, and other shade loving perennials. This weekend should be a big purchasing event! Yippeee!!!
I'll take some pics soon and put up.