Hi Karen. The cemetery gardening is my 'Habit'. I'm an apartment dweller so I get my gardening fix at the cemetery. We have a little foothill town where they are following this trend of renewing an old cemetery and planting it. It is at 2600 feet and they also have the critter problems you do. It started with the interest in the old historic roses that were there. Joy Feller and Kathy Hammes saw an opportunity to do what has been done here in Sacramento. They have put in more roses and perennials and bulbs. That cemetery from the 1850's is, other than what they have done, all bare earth, weeds, ironworks and crumbling concrete for as long as I can remember. I was so thrilled and surprised to see there work there because it is my family cemetery! They have Salvia sylvestris ,S. 'Hot Lips' and some gregii, I think. All seem to do well year to year. Volunteering for a civic purpose is worth making the time for if you can spare it.
