If all that is not enough I dig up something already here and move it.

Today I had divided a big clump of daylilies and replanted to make a mini row of 5 clumps, I planted my yarrows, I planted my order of mail order tiny Lupines from American Meadows and did some general garden chores.

I also planted two pots, one on my patio of Zahara red zinnias and the order I did a combo. I put a Victoria Blue Salvia and around it I put pink blush verbena.

I should go out and plant my cucumbers. Or maybe I will plant something else. Got enough to choose from sitting on my driveway waiting for planting.

Your gardens are so beautiful and it's because of your time and dedication to them. I know you'll get it all done and you will be rewarded for your efforts. Keep goin' girl!

MeMo

I hope your hips feel better asap and that your alliums get planted and flurish. You have such a project there with a blank slate. Endless possabilities but too much work.

I do *try* to restrain myself but sometimes it's not possible as you know, Rita! It's another reason I don't shop online - way too easy to go overboard for me.

I still have seedlings and a few plants in the greenhouse to plant yet.

But, like Memo, my hips hurt, and I am tired to the bone. I know all the extra shifts are to blame, but only two more extra shifts to work and I'll be back to 2 a week. Much better.

My butterfly garden is almost all planted now. Hardscape and mulch remain to be done, but the planting is almost complete!
kay

Did your lupines from American Meadows arrive yet? At least I think that is were you ordered them. I bought 9 lupine plants there. Little things but what I needed as that was the size I could work with were I wanted them.

It's funny when I'm in nurseries going crazy, packing the car full to the brim with plants, every once in a while I stop and think "hmmm...I have to PLANT all of these!" But then I just move on and continue adding to the cart knowing that all the work is worth it in the end with a nice, interesting garden.

I'm leaving in a few days on a trip and just got 2 deliveries yesterday (fairly small, only about 6 items) and then I still have a handful of perennials backed up. I find the planting goes very quickly if you actually already know where all the plant material is going to be planted. Rita, it sounds like you've been pretty organized so it's going smoothly. Isn't it such a great feeling of accomplishment?

I finally planted those cucumbers today as I didn't do it yesterday. I had no place to put them so just took some tomato cages (so they could climb up off the ground) stuck them in the middle of lawn space, poured some compost directly on top of grass, planted cucumber seedlings in compost and then put some bricks around the newly created gardenbed to hold the compost in. Its a temporary thing as the cucumbers are usully done by late August. Sometimes sooner.

I did get my four potted clematis planted and that was a big chore as digging big holes is hard work for me. So now I have another clematis tower. Of course it doesn't look like much now as I cut the newly planted clematis back and that means the last of the flowers were cut off too.

Lupines from American Meadows

Tomorrow I will fuss with centering the trellis were I want it and then I will plant honeysuckle vines on it and plant my hollyhocks in front. So the space from the dead rose becomes an opporunity to plant something else. Plus I really wanted the honeysuckle back there. I used to have one there for years and years but then it died out and I miss it. Well, I will just plant another.

I also ordered from Great Gardens. I got that buttercream shasta, a Little Kim lilac (Couldn't resist) and a re double knock-out for DH. He loves the red ones.
kay

One of my two Siberian Iris orders that I had not received yet just came in the mail so I have to go unpack and put them to soak overnight now. I will be planting them tomorrow.

Scott

Sheesh!

~Annie

So I also moved afew daylilies around, watered everything and called it quits for the day. Yes, I know I need to stop moving things around but I can't help myself.

Hopefully tomorrow I get back to the project by the trellis to plant the two honeysuckle vines and the hollyhocks. I planted the third honeysuckle vine I had yesterday and dug out the overrunn wood hycinth bulbs and the wild onions that gets mixed in with them yesterday. I needed to get that cleared and workable to reposition the trellis in order to plant. But that is as far as I got.

Now that those are out of the way, I can spend all day tomorrow trimming boxwood hedge and topiary - their first trim of the season. It's going to be a job because I let them grow really long, didn't trim in April like I usually do. But I was glad I didn't because we had all the frosts this month. It may take a couple of days, esp. if the sun gets too hot and I have to take many breaks.

Thank goodness the edging is done. Then I have some perennials to find places for, which means digging new areas I suppose, and zinnia and sunflower seeds to get in. Aw well, it's all worth it!

but I got 2 orders of roses in, an order of bulbs and bought some plants at a plant sale.
:( :(
I mean... yay plants?
our soil is so hard here that it's often quite an undertaking to dig medium sized holes. And while I was gone this weekend a couple of my unplanted plants wilted and look sad this morning. I'm kind of freaking out about it actually. Hopefully they will bounce back with a little tlc.

It took me as long to fix the trellis, that is get it centered and shoved into the ground so that it was solid, as it did to plant the two honeysuckle vines up against it.

Here is the picture of that stuff I planted yesterday. Turned out real good even if I do say so myself,

And get this. I have a torn rotator cuff in my shoulder too! I can live with it as long as I don't move the arm a certain way. lol.

But every week I say "I'm DONE." And then I go to the store again. :)

Now we've got a new bed going along the fence line, and my goal is to fill it with all KO roses with Lavender in between. I only need about 3 more KO's. Call me a fan of KO's! Plus the large wildflower bed my dh built which is growing like crazy. HE takes care of that plot. I do have my limits. lol

It never ends. Can't wait until Winter so my poor body can catch a break!

Your knockout and lavender hedgerow sounds beautiful. And one just can't stop gardening no matter what.

Now I am almost recovered except for slightly slurred speech
and atrocious writing.

But I anticipated spring over the winter and started many kinds of plants under lights: several kinds of delphiniums,
several kinds of lupin, foxgloves, etc. We had snow on the ground for three months so WS was almost impossible.

Now under lights in the laundry room, I have about 10 kinds of hollyhocks, agastache Navaho Sunset, 2 kinds of campanula, liatris, giant platycodon, columbine (blue), and veronica.

Of course, I will have more plants than I need, and I may sell them. But my point is that for a $2.95 or less packet
of seeds you can have all of almost any flower you could choose. Of course, not all of them make it, but enough do to make your garden Eden and very quickly too.

If you start your perennials now, you can design an entire opulent garden for next year which will last for years.
WS, under lights, in situ, in cell packs are all ways to go
for cheap and wonderful perennials for a cottage garden.

Now, my garden is weeds in most places because the lost month and a half, the the structure is there thanks primarily to seed grown plants. I use bought and seeds.

What I did was plant the three (or four) little plantlets squished together so that it will look like one plant like I bought in the pots locally. They should look so nice when they bloom next year. This year their job is too settle in and grow.

Here is a picture with Salvia Victoria Blue in one of my potted planters that I made. It's in the middle. Around it is a pink verbena so just ignore the outside leaves and look at the leaves of the plant in the middle.

I made some real progress today. Planted my two flats of zinnias out front and that really helps make that entire area look much better. That slope in front was just too empty and needed plants. I would have loved to have done it sooner but was waiting to get the last of the daylilies planted. They weren't shipped until this week and I got them Thursday. I would have wanted them weeks and weeks sooner. At least it's done now.

Then I also planted my Mexican Sunflowers, which I had started as seeds in some pots. And also planted Four O'Clocks I had potted that I also started myself.

So the array of pots and flats sitting here needing planting is slowely going down. Still more to do though as I have to plant my poppies that I started from seed in pots and that big High Country Gardens order that came the other day and I haven't even thought about getting to do anything with as yet.

Then there was lots of watering to do as everything I have been planting now for weeks has to be kept watered until it settles in. i have those little Lupines I planted yesterday, which I gave a big soak to. Plus I have been watering those little (and I mean LITTLE TINY) Geum plants twice a day but I don't know if I will be able to keep them alive. They had almot no roots and are so small, so they dry out fast.

It really made a big different in the pots and plants sitting around here to be planted. Now these pots were really small but there were lots of them.

Still have 2 vines, one blueberry shrub,a columbine and a partial flat of verbena to plant. Plus my own started from seed plants of 2 kinds of poppies.