June 10, 2007
It's all in the dirt!
I did it!
Can you believe it?
The Grand Lunar helped me get some of the space ready, and I pruned, sawed, dug, and planted all afternoon and evening.
I planted:
4 tiny baby lilac bushes (including one red, one lavender, one deep purple and one white)
3 tiny baby blue hydrangeas
3 tiny baby bare root dead stick looking sub-zero hardy hibiscus
1 tiny itty bitty baby butterfly bush
6 blue asters
6 jacob's ladders
3 butterfly blue scabosia
I hope they grow, and look nice, and don't die, and don't take over.
I took before pictures. But it was getting dark so I didn't take after pictures yet.
It would've been a lot easier if I'd just prepared for planting before they arrived.
Live and ... well, I don't really expect I'll learn from this, other than intellectually. I'm sure I'll do the same thing next time. Stupid procrastinator.
hooray! how fun. can't wait to see the pix - and the actual plants someday! I just saw scabiosa at WalMart yesterday and was tempted to get some... but since I was just running in, and Daniel had the kids in the car, I didn't.
btw in case some of the plants don't make it, I think most plant companies have a replacement guarantee if they don't live for the first year. oh wait! you've got an even better guarantee:
http://michiganbulb.com/article.asp?ai=129
Posted by: kelly at June 11, 2007 7:27 AMI love lilacs!! We had one in our yard when I was growing up. I should look and see if there are any that will grow here--and then get one. All our neighbors have hydrangeas. Those are pretty too. Right now, I have nothing blooming--oh wait there is ONE maragold that came up. LOL
Posted by: Rebecca Newport at June 11, 2007 7:49 AMGood job! I used to have some Jacob's Ladder but the Spirea crowded it out. I should get some more.
Posted by: Rosanne at June 11, 2007 10:11 AMI already say WOW! But, I'll say it again. WOW!! You are going to be having way too much fun with your camera now. YeeHAW!
Can't wait to see pictures! :) Hugs, Robin
Posted by: Robin at June 11, 2007 3:58 PMOh my! We girlies just looked through all of the flowers' pictures and ooooooo and ahhhhh the whole way through.
Your yard will be *awesome*
Posted by: Robin at June 11, 2007 4:03 PMIt sounds like you've been busy! I don't think you'll kill them. The weather might, but not you. LOL!
Posted by: Shari at June 12, 2007 2:12 AMwonderful! I hope everything lives. :) I want another lilac bush, but feel silly planting here, when we don't plan to be here long-term. I guess I'll wait and plant them at the farmhouse, instead.
Posted by: April at June 12, 2007 6:54 PMI ordered from MI Bulb, too, with a handy-dandy discount. :o) I didn't get my plants in the ground right away either. LOL Not a chance! Do you think *I* would have prepped anything? ::no::
They're all planted now. Six blue moon hydrangeas, two butterfly bushes (ordered one, two were stuck together so I separated them), three bare root lupines and 3 bare root fernleaf bleeding hearts. Yay!
Posted by: Michelle deMoose at June 16, 2007 3:40 PMGood on you, mate, for planting beauty. Don't forget to fertilize with some organic fertilizer to help them grow. Don't put MiracleGro into the water table . . .
Posted by: Linda at June 16, 2007 3:59 PM
