Hardy Mums Survive!

I thought I was done posting about new outdoor plantings here, but apparently I'm not. When we redid the front beds this year, I made a decision to get rid of a HUGE clump of hardy white/pinkish chrysanthemums. They were way too wide and didn't look good in the center of the enormous bed out there. Well, I got a new leafblower this week (which kicks butt!) and did the front yard on Friday. In blowing leaves into the woods, I discovered several clumps of the mums had survived being dug up and thrown into the edge of the woods - and had loosely rooted there and flowered!

I can't stand to see something so determined just languish, so I salvaged all the clumps and planted a nice group in the new garage bed, and one in the pool bed. I don't know if they'll make it at this late date (we've been having tons of frost already, although the soil is soft and not particlularly cold yet). I mulched with leaves - haha. I feel like I'm at least giving them a chance.

In other news, I planted mother of thyme seeds about a month ago and have them in our upstairs bathroom window. They are doing great and I think most of them sprouted. They will need to be divided in a few weeks and we are borrowing some grow lights and will move them to the basement. We're going to plant some hot peppers and probably some herbs and a few other things at that point, so I expect I'll be back here reporting on progress. I've never grown using "grow lights" before so this should be interesting. My goal is to have some decent sized mother of thyme plants to put in between the front walk stones next spring.