I went to Newman's to buy fertilizer today -- some plants are looking a little pale and needy. I can manage to fill the can and add the fertilizer and get it to the gardens if I work slowly and wear the boot.
But look what I cam home with:
What was I thinking? Planting in July? All this? Can I even get these potted and planted?
Jim wanted to get out and drive around a bit so he took me to Newman's and then we actually went to Payne's and I got even more stuff.
I got annuals:
- 3 deep purple Angelonias for a pot -- annuals for some color
- 2 silver dichondras for the white bowl under the tickseed I just transplanted there.
- A white lobelia for the front portal urn.
I got two penstemons:
- 2 nice big quart Rocky Mountain penstemons. I'll put one behind the little Blue Profusion sage in the circle garden and one next to the yellow yarrow in the driveway strip.
I got ground covers:
- 3 little Coral Reef ground cover sedums for the moss rock border.
- A couple good sized Blue Spruce creeping sedums for the moss rock border.
- Several large Angelina golden sedums, some for the ajuga patch, some for the moss rock border (big quart plants, will divide).
- I even got a very large Turkish speedwell* to divide and plant along the moss rock border.
* mislabeled, it's actually Veronica lewisii, not
oltensis, and isn't so happy in hot dry crevices
Whew. It just felt so normal to be walking in shoes plant shopping. I had written off the season except for weeding, trimming, moving a couple small things around and doing the watering.
But now . . .