It's finally coming together! Got the two center beds in today. Tomorrow we'll close it up with the long side bed. It's just the bricks and dirt for now. I'll go back through to amend and plant on the next decent week day.
I'm finished!!! ... for this year at least. Next spring I'll finish up the other side of the yard and lay gravel in the paths. Feels good not having any more plants waiting in pots.
Name: Chantell Middle of Virginia (Zone 7a) You're worth it!
Mike - stunning...all that hard work really shows...you've done a stellar job!!!
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Well GT I think I'm going to go for it and get two of the Staphylea trifolia. Then I have to figure out which other two plants to get to meet the four plant minimum. I was thinking of getting a physocarpus opulifolia but MOBOT suggests they are susceptible to fireblight. I always thought Ninebarks were fairly bulletproof. Anyone have experience with them? I already have a ton of pyracantha and a single photinia villosa, both of which have some susceptibility to fireblight so I don't want anything else that could bring in that disease.
Name: Gita Veskimets Baltimore or Nottingham MD-212 (Zone 7a) Life is "mind over matter". If I d
At my HD--we had some "Nine-Bark shrubs last summer. First time I heard of them or see them.
They were always getting so wilted--as no one was venturing into the 15 -20 racks of jammed full shrubs
and perennials in the area we call "The Corral". This is outside the garden gate area--across the road
from e garden gates and out a ways on the parking lot. The "Corral"...
To water there--is brutally impractical. Have to drag the 100' hose from the building across the lane
and unto the Corral to water. That is the 1st time I saw what a Nine-Bark looked like.
It was totally wilted...the leaves crunchy. I soaked them well---and once more a couple days later--
and they recovered nicely. Yeah! Lost a lot of leaves....The leaves are a nice bronze/dark reddish.
Don't know anything else about this shrub. G.
Name: Sally central Maryland (Zone 7b) See you in the funny papers!
I moved my Oakleaf hydrangea over the weekend. It felt good to be in the garden, and I knew this soaking rain was coming.
Gita's wintersweet bush is blooming, and the clippings I brought into the kitchen give us whiffs of scent. Darn shame the rain is soaking the ones outdoors and keeping me from smelling all those.
Purple deadnettle and bittercress are growing like crazy.
It is in the 50's here and sunny, sure makes you feel like getting out there and starting Spring cleanup. So glad that this weather isn't going to fool me. I know there is a snow storm somewhere just waiting to blow in
Life is Great! Holly
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It'll seem really strange if we don't get measurable snow this winter! The forecast calls for mixed rain and snow in the first week of February, but it doesn't sound like it'll add up to much.
Bittercress – Cardamine hirsuta. produces slender stalks with tiny white flowers in late winter and early spring. Seed pods explode when disturbed and throw seeds 6 - 8 feet.
Earth is a galactic insane asylum where the inmates have been left in charge.
... for this year at least. Next spring I'll finish up the other side of the yard and lay gravel in the paths. Feels good not having any more plants waiting in pots. 
