No gardening today ;-(

No gardening today but will try and get pictures in so that we can start identifying ;)

Some more names

Ok... so after talking with Sue, we have some more names of plants....

• Feverfew - pretty white flowers
• Columbine - babies - white or yellow
• Siberian Iris - a LOT of them - which are similar to French Iris

6/28/05 Garden update

So, through a friend, Don, I was hooked up to another friend, Christina, who is a gardner and a client of hers wants to give away iris's to a good home and also, she is moving away and wants to give away her plants to good homes. I went last night with a friend, Sue to a beautiful place in Carlisle. Christina gave us so many plants, I started feeling very guilty about it. Unfortunately I didn't write down the names, so now I have no idea what most of them are! ;-) The adventures of gardening. The mosquitoes were out in full force and biting like crazy but Christina patiently offered more and more things to us and we took many many things to enhance our garden.

This morning, in our side garden, I planted a lot of the iris's.

Of the names of things I remember her giving us...

• Bee Balm
• Tons of Iris's - some orange, some yellow, some others...
• Chives
• Pretty white flowers
• Other tall things, I don't recall...

So.. it will be an adventure next year....

6/27/05 - Garden update

Hello,
Welcome to my new gardening blogger.

I'm new to perennial gardening in New England (Boston Area) and I thought I'd start this to keep track of things as well as to learn.

So, what's up?

This weekend we MULCHED and MULCHED and WEEDED and MULCHED.

Also, today, my friend Sue, gave me a perennial called "Cranesbill". It has the cutest pink flowers. I like the shade of pink very much, and the leaves are sure unusual. I'm going to put it in one of my beds at home.

Also, for her, I bought (at her request) some fox gloves and gave her a rose campion and a day lily. She is working on expanding her flower garden.

One thing I'm struggling with is the design of my garden. Right now, there is the Builder plants and then separately beds of flowers. The flower beds that are separate from the house are fine. The ones in front of the house feel a bit awkward. More on that later.

Tata.
Leela