I wished I knew how to post pictures..A friend has promised to come over and help me with that but right now she is stretched between two homes, one which she is going to have a renter move in next week so she's busy as a beaver! She has promised to share some Stella d'ora daylilies with me and some yellow sedum groundcover..I have had creeping yellow sedum before but hers is different than what I had. It is really delicate/lacy where mine was more on the succulent order.
Today I had the man and his nieces that does my mulching and prunning for me dig up 2 mature Nicko blue hydraneas on the side of my house so I would have room to plant 2 peony bushes that were gifted to me, and 3 iris plants. I will be adding some other plants to that bed. My Prairie Sun rudbeckia needs to be planted, as well as some more creeping phlox that I'm going to divide..I took the lopper sheers and cut down the hydranea foliage before they got here and they did the digging of the roots..They have been working in 89 heat since after 7 am and he likes to get away from here by 3 pm to beat the work traffic going on..He mixed up top soil and organic soil conditioner to fill in the holes where they dug out the hydrangea that were probably planted back in late 1970's or early 1980's by previous owner. I still have 2 more that I will keep that are hugh.
I'm a happy camper right now. I was worried that he wouldn't be able to get our work done today and the peony that my friend Chris gave me was bare root, but i had added water in a garbage bag to keep it moist. I have watered the new flowerbed and plants just a few minutes ago and will do it again tomorrow morning, as it is supposed to be in 90's all weekend. Yeh! I like hot weather. Tomorrow I will plant my Prairie Sun rudbeckia that I grew from seeds and divide some more creeping phlox and put it along the border of that new bed so it will look pretty in the springtime.
