Varied weather - cool and cloudy, rainy, sunny.
- Had a gang of dogs here this weekend. My three dogs, my daughter's dog and the two dogs of my husband's son. A lot of activity.
- Finished fertilizing the fruit trees.
- Fertilized some of the native trees I have planted throughout the property. I still need to fertilize one of the Red Buckeyes, and my Eve's Necklace. The hoses don't reach that far so it's a bit more complicated to water them. Poor planning on my part.
- Mulched four of the trees referenced above and several fruit trees.
- Fertilized my columbine and Clyde Redmond Iris in the Circle Drive, raked away fallen leaves.
- In the Long Border I planted the following:
- Six Sea Star Sedum (Sedum pulchellum) - this is a low, spreading, succulent ground cover that blooms pink flowers.
- Six Ox-Eye Daisy 'May Queen' (Leucanthemum vulgare) - these get about two feet tall, they are for the middle of the border.
- Three Jerusalem Sage (Phlomis russelliana) - there is a slight silvery cast to the foliage and wonderful yellow flowers that make a whorl around the stems. Very unusual.
- Six Pink Double Delight Coneflower (Echinaceal purpurea) - very attractive to butterflies.
- Three Sangria Crinums - crinums are very Southern bulbs. A garden of the South without some crinums would be, well, un-Southern. This variety has dark red leaf growth and pink flowers. If you want bulbs blooming in your garden year round then crinums will be an important addition. They will cover the summertime period - the unbelievably hot Southern summertimes. They don't mind poor soil - clay or sand. They make quite a statement because they have a lot of foliage (it forms large clumps that do not die back, so if you like the foliage of your bulbs to disappear after the blooming period then crinums are not for you). They are extremely long lived. You can see them in all the yards of small towns as you drive past. There are hundreds of varieties of crinums.
- In the Medicinal Garden I planted five Digitalis (Foxglove). The common foxglove is the source of the cardiac stimulant digitalis, I believe no synthetic has yet been developed to replace it, therefore it is very important in medicine and essential in a "physic" garden. All of the plant is poinsonous.
- In the Rose Garden I planted a Souvenir de la Malmaison rose. This is a Bourbon rose dating back to 1843. It was originally known as 'Queen of Beauty and Fragrance' until one of the Grand Dukes of Russia obtained a specimen from the gardens at Malmaison for the Imperial Garden in St. Petersberg. The blooms are large, quartered, fragrant, and very pale pink. It gets 3-4 feet tall.
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