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How does your garden grow?
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shalmestere had ordered gardening things chose that week to ship them; I hope the baby plants didn't suffer too much from sitting in the Post Office for a couple of extra days. Some of them seem to have put out blind cave shoots or roots
Anyway, we got half a dozen of one kind of violet, in little plastic pots, and a baker's dozen of another kind of violet, bare-root in bags of peat moss, and planted those interspersed with the lilacs and three other kinds of violets already in the plot running along one side of our front walk (where the arborvitae used to be). And we got a dozen Fragaria virginiana, the Virginia wild strawberry, which we planted around and between the three kinds of roses in the plot in front of the house (where the quinces used to be). The theory is that the violets and strawberries will both spread of their own accord and form ground cover under the lilacs and roses respectively. And lilacs, roses, violets, and strawberries are all reasonably hardy perennials, and most of them are native to North America, so maybe we won't have to work too hard to keep them alive.
So we spent about two hours yesterday afternoon putting all this stuff in the ground. We also have a bunch of hibiscus and daffodil bulbs, which we're waiting to plant until the ground gets colder, and there are several more kinds of bulbs yet to be shipped, as well as some Fragaria moscata, the "musk strawberry", which will be shipped as baby plants in the spring. I'm not sure where all these things will go, butshalmestere has some kind of grand aesthetic vision for it all.
BTW, the musk strawberry is also called the "hautbois" strawberry. No idea why a strawberry would be named after a shawm....
shalmestere had ordered gardening things chose that week to ship them; I hope the baby plants didn't suffer too much from sitting in the Post Office for a couple of extra days. Some of them seem to have put out blind cave shoots or rootsAnyway, we got half a dozen of one kind of violet, in little plastic pots, and a baker's dozen of another kind of violet, bare-root in bags of peat moss, and planted those interspersed with the lilacs and three other kinds of violets already in the plot running along one side of our front walk (where the arborvitae used to be). And we got a dozen Fragaria virginiana, the Virginia wild strawberry, which we planted around and between the three kinds of roses in the plot in front of the house (where the quinces used to be). The theory is that the violets and strawberries will both spread of their own accord and form ground cover under the lilacs and roses respectively. And lilacs, roses, violets, and strawberries are all reasonably hardy perennials, and most of them are native to North America, so maybe we won't have to work too hard to keep them alive.
So we spent about two hours yesterday afternoon putting all this stuff in the ground. We also have a bunch of hibiscus and daffodil bulbs, which we're waiting to plant until the ground gets colder, and there are several more kinds of bulbs yet to be shipped, as well as some Fragaria moscata, the "musk strawberry", which will be shipped as baby plants in the spring. I'm not sure where all these things will go, but
shalmestere has some kind of grand aesthetic vision for it all.BTW, the musk strawberry is also called the "hautbois" strawberry. No idea why a strawberry would be named after a shawm....
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