I've been saving this thread to read at the right moment, when I am not too rushed with this and that. I've reached the moment and really enjoyed the thread so far!
The moment: I've done all I can to prepare for this weekend's Garden Walk, and it's raining all day today and tomorrow so even were there things to do I couldn't really..... so I am relaxed and sort of in an enforced rest, hahaha!
Ah, generally I am a plunker. I usually have a very general idea in mind, and maybe one or two specific things I intend, but most everything is more like a conversation I am having with the garden and with time....
The one arrangement I tried to plan this year didn't work how I wanted it to, or hasn't yet, perhaps. I wanted Amaranth 'Love Lies Bleeding' next to a Dusty Miller (which I visualized blooming) next to a stand of Pink Muhly Grass, next to sedums, also in bloom in my mind's eye.
Well, the Amaranth, I didn't pay enough attention to the seeds I was buying, is another variety entirely, lovely plant that gets TALL and doesn't drip its long flowers on the ground but sends them up in spikes.
Eventually, that is.
Meanwhile, the Dusty Miller (around which this is all built, by the way, because it was living sort of under the back steps for 17 or 18 years, I am told, and I was tasked with saving it rather than just evicting it) is a rescue, and is just putting out some healthy foliage.
As for the Pink Muhly Grass, well, it blooms in September and until then is a patch of grass I am having a challenge distinguishing completely from the weed grass that likes to crop up here and there. Weed it? Don't weed it? GAH!
And the sedums are just slow.
So my little arrangement is having a mind of its own and meanwhile I planted a banana pepper next to those lanky amaranths because it needed a place to go, and a calendula volunteered beside that and of course it has to stay, because, calendula!
So that's how it goes.
Also I have ordered some (just five) daylilies and finding the right spot for them is going to be interesting.
