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Packing up a garden, part 1

I bought perennials this year instead of annuals. Scavenged at plant sales, yard sales, clearance sales, you name it. I moved them into tubs since the new neighbors up front have turned the shared garden into their own personal ashtray and I skeeve cigarette butts.

So here is where I will log what’s where for next spring, with the help of a sharpie and duct tape:

Autumn fern

Japanese ghost fern #1 of 3

Butterfly bush, plus some creeping sedum plus one of those bluebell things from the Honore yard

Red penstamon

Lilac bush, love grass, lamb’s ears creeping thyme and with any luck, a Chinese lantern

And it only took until October

Moonflower! How beautiful. You were worth the wait since March when I planted those seeds…

2011: 10/11
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From old garden to new garden

An old neighbor let me into the old yard to thin out some plants I had stuck there a few years ago. He helped me dig them up, too, which was key with the lillies. Those suckers took root since I left which is silly because they wouldn’t grow for me.

Tiger lillies, recouped from the side of the road, in bags.

Ginger-something bought at a yard sale where the homeowner got out a shovel and dug up a clump for me.

Mostly in the ground now, in a bright shady spot.

In the new yard, I found this guy popped up on his own. What is he?

2011: 05/03
CATEGORY: Grew it
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More stuff came back

Like this rue I just left out all winter. Had I known it stood a chance, I’d have cut it back harder in the fall.

Delightful!

And glorious chives, about to bloom.

A neighbor who moved out in a hurry dumped her pots carelessly in the yard, styrofoam peanuts and stones and all. I scavenged the dirt and ended up with a chunk of last summer’s sage.