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This article was planned for publication about two months ago as part three of a three part expo on my front entry garden. The rockgarden being the third spoke in the triangle. It got side tracked until now when issues on fall planting, drainage and bulb rot begin to overwhelm my email. The two previous articles are referenced here as, Front Lawn #3 with Daffodils and Front Patio with Daffodils, and again at the end of this article.
The rockgarden in which is article is written can be seen from a picture of the first article, Front Lawn #3 with Daffodils. The rockgarden is in the front center of this picture as it looks over the circle driveway - looking south. The Rock Garden The rock garden plot is the last of the three anchors for our the front lawn garden. I started it in the fall of 1999 as a necessity garden when I had a lot of bulbs that I didn't have a place for, very little time, but I had a lot of nice rocks and some topsoil. I placed the rocks into a peanut shape, and had a truck load of topsoil dumped inside the string of rocks. After spreading the soil, I planted my existing bulbs, like lycoris, hardy glads, daffodils such as N. bulbacodium, N. jonquilla, 'Twin Sisters', 'Stint', 'Intrique', and a mixed bag of orphaned bubs, left over mums, and three different ground cover "starts" that I had salvaged from the old place.
I'm happy to report that I had a good crop of flowers this year from the peanut, including some of the lycoris bloomed their first year down - usually they wait for the second year. That nice crop included a few nice plants of poison ivy that had to be taken down. The mums surprised me, I went out to cut them back in the middle of June, following the rule that you have to cut mums back by the 1st of July or they will get to large, become unruly and fall down when laden with blossom. It was too late, the mums were loaded with bud, so I just left them to their own means this year. The mums bloomed, they fell over but after staking, they gave a beautiful bank of white bloom on the side of the peanut. Side note: It's our first year here in October 2000, and I think I mentioned in an earlier article or discussion that this new homesite of ours has the best ground cover of poison ivy that I've ever seen. At least in the worked beds there was only a few sprigs of the evil plant. The broad leaf plant killer, and my sprayer have been working overtime this year. Go To Page: 1 2 |
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