The Pope John Paul II clematis having swiftly died last summer, I'm trying again, this time with First Lady, who was planted out on a mild April day of high dim clouds. After I got her in the ground, I spent a fair amount of time weeding the back bed, which is sort of a catastrophe at this point.
Things that appear to have not made it to this spring (some of which, I suspect, succumbed during the summer when I got uber-depressed and stopped watering) :
- Distant Drums rose
- Salvia patens (no surprise)
- Oriental poppy
- most of the non-verticillata coreopsis (dammit)
- foxgloves
- the dianthus--which have, technically speaking, survived, but look awfully ratty
- the big blue aster in the side bed
What has been wildly successful:
- the fucking mint
- coreopsis verticillata
- the cistus
Other things that I like which have made it and that I may need to move around once I've figured out what the hell I'm doing with the configuration of the beds:
- daylilies (Hyperion, 2 in number)
- one of the anemones
- those asters that bloom in the fall with the tiny white flowers
- the hebe, which is a whole other deal
- astonishingly enough, the peony which spends its life smothered by the cistus
- the climbing roses
- a couple of the things in the side bed--um, Jacob's Ladder, a geum, a monarda, and a bunch of miscellaneous sedum (actually, those last I might dig up and take to Jean's plant sale)
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