Just a Few Purchases

I took advantage of some sales this week and bought a few new plants. Well actually I bought a lot of new plants! After browsing at Blooming Bulb for a couple of weeks I watched the price on daylilies drop to as low as $1.33 a clump. I couldn't resist so I put in an order with them for 3 bunches of 4 different types of lilies to fill in the bed on the other side of the garage in the fall. I figure I'll pot them up and let them grow over the summer and then plant them when the bed is ready. I also ordered 2 different types of Astilbe (peach and pink), some mixed hollyhock plants, and Kniphofia Red Hot Poker.

Then I took a ride up to Meadow View Farm yesterday morning for what will hopefully be my last visit there. They had everything on sale since I think they close at the end of the month. I picked up a few perennials: Sedum Angelina Stonecrop, 2 Lavender Hidcote, and Gaillardia Gallo Red (Blanket Flower). Plus impatiens (my plants started in the basement have a ways to go before flowering), zinnia, some more alyssum, 2 annual dianthus, ageratum, and bacopa.

I started digging and laying out the rough area for the little brick patio I want to make in the center of the island bed today. I also picked up sand and weed fabric for the project. This will be a real experiment, but I figure it's worth a try, and I have all summer to play with it. While I was at Home Depot picking up materials I discovered their rhododendrons were 1/2 price. So I picked up what was labeled as a Nova Zembla and another one labeled "red" that still has a dark pink bloom on it. They were $12 each for 2-gallon containers so I figured it was a good deal. These will be used out near the road to fill in the huge space where one of our transplanted evergreen shrubs from the island died.

Oxeye/Marguerite Daisies in the pool bed:




Purple and white lamium with barberry in the same bed. there's coreopsis in there that has buds and I plan to add more perennials in the fall.


Gaillardia Gallo Red:


Coral Bells and Salvia in front of the house:


Calamint in bloom: