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greenstormI have a garden again. I went and walked it the other day. It's long and narrow and covered. What this means?
I walked into a nursery today (David Hunter, the one on Arbutus and Broadway-ish) and they had some own-root Austin roses for $17. Not all their Austins were own-root, but Teasing Georgia and Abraham Darby were. Z0MG quartered roses are so hot!11!!11!!!!!11!!1oneoneleven!
So you can tell I have a garden now because I am going to be sinking money into it like crazy. And I have some money, so that's good.
I promise I will not spend more than $200 at the VanDusen plant sale, and less than that if I am in any way uncertain if the plant fits my criteria:
*hot deck (west-facing, some overhang, so hot-shade is fine for the third row of plants in, but nothing that needs to be cool in the summer)
*mostly can deal with dry
*good screen, edible, fragrant, stunningly gorgeous, a climber, evergreen: at least two must apply
*not super-ridiculous-huge plants if only pruned/maintained once per month. Plum tree: fine. Cherry: do they make those in super-dwarf?
I'm expecting lots of herbs, a couple of impulse tomatoes, a couple of juneberries, maybe some antique roses, soem fruit trees, some exotic fruits, and I JUST REALISED I COULD HAVE SWORD FERNS ON MY DECK. No need to buy them, of course, but... oh, wow. hot shade, third rank, edging the trees and vines which are in turn edged by tomatoes.
I'm going to go be alone for awhile.
I walked into a nursery today (David Hunter, the one on Arbutus and Broadway-ish) and they had some own-root Austin roses for $17. Not all their Austins were own-root, but Teasing Georgia and Abraham Darby were. Z0MG quartered roses are so hot!11!!11!!!!!11!!1oneoneleven!
So you can tell I have a garden now because I am going to be sinking money into it like crazy. And I have some money, so that's good.
I promise I will not spend more than $200 at the VanDusen plant sale, and less than that if I am in any way uncertain if the plant fits my criteria:
*hot deck (west-facing, some overhang, so hot-shade is fine for the third row of plants in, but nothing that needs to be cool in the summer)
*mostly can deal with dry
*good screen, edible, fragrant, stunningly gorgeous, a climber, evergreen: at least two must apply
*not super-ridiculous-huge plants if only pruned/maintained once per month. Plum tree: fine. Cherry: do they make those in super-dwarf?
I'm expecting lots of herbs, a couple of impulse tomatoes, a couple of juneberries, maybe some antique roses, soem fruit trees, some exotic fruits, and I JUST REALISED I COULD HAVE SWORD FERNS ON MY DECK. No need to buy them, of course, but... oh, wow. hot shade, third rank, edging the trees and vines which are in turn edged by tomatoes.
I'm going to go be alone for awhile.
