Notes About Last Season

I noticed my list from last year, things I hoped to get done by August 2010. Now that I am going into growing season 2011, where does my garden stand?


I had accomplished #1,2,4,5,7,10 last year. This spring I have finished #3 (although that pyracantha could use still more pruning-it was wayyyy out of hand), and #6.

1. move all the shasta daisies out of the east flower bed.✔
2. move the echinacea✔
3. severely trim back the pyracantha✔
4. divide Caramel heuchera for increase✔
5. move the Russian sage to sunnier location✔
6. take out the brick edge from the pyracantha bed✔
7. plant the Japanese maple✔
8. divide the Jack Frost brunnera for increase
9. extend the plant area beside the hot tub fence
10. cut back bugnet rose✔

Not too bad, considering how decrepit I seem to have become compared to twenty years ago when I would have barreled through all that and done more besides. Ah, how little I appreciated my youth at the time!

I created a prairie bed of sorts from the plants I relocated, although Shasta daisies and daffodils do not grow in prairies, not real ones! I guess this is like Japanese gardens most of us think of planting, we want the impressionistic atmosphere rather than adhering to the genuine components. Mine is a simple country garden, after all.

It will soon be time to make my new set of goals for this years garden.