Among other things, I am restocking the moonbeam coreopsis (with an eye to keeping it from running amok this time), oenothera (ditto) and cistus (DOUBLE ditto), doubling down on the foxgloves, dianthus, and penstemon, planting delphiniums for the first time, taking another run at gaura, putting in a white oriental poppy, and--a bunch of other stuff. (Full list in Google doc.)
Also, being 0 for 2 on clematis, of course I had to take another swing--this time Fair Rosamund, and I need to figure out where to put her. The logical place would be against the west fence adjacent to Wollerton Old Hall, but I have read accounts that W.O.H. blooms can fade a kind of unpleasant yellowish-off-white, which would look like hell with F.R. Likely further towards the NW corner, with something blue in between.
None of this includes the $111 I spent at Heirloom Roses: Molineaux, Queen of Sweden, and Jacqueline du Pre. I am dubious about the latter, given others's reports that she's straggled in their gardens, but she is too beautiful to resist:
I have started a large map of the entire west bed, in wan hopes of developing some better plan for deciding where to put things than just tromping around and setting pots down more or less at random and then hurriedly digging them in before my back gives out.
Stuff to move from north bed before it gets renovated:
- daylilies (can probably split each into 2-3)
- dianthus (ditto)
- eryngium
- echinops
- linum
- siberian irises? maybe? (they want a wetter site than I can guarantee them)
- peony, of course
- Prince asters
Also: what do I put in the NW corner? If I could locate one of those dwarf Sango Kaku Japanese maples, that would be good. Or if someone would breed a ceanothus that doesn't get HUGE.
