I spent a marathon session yesterday looking for plants for our garden. We decided that what we have is just too messy for us to maintain and we don't know what the previous owners intended, so we're going to dig some stuff up and plant what we want. I see why people hire garden designers to do the work for them - it took me a long time to find plants suitable for our zone, soil, and the amount of sun that the places where wanted to put the plants get.
So far I've ordered seeds or bareroot plants for purple coneflower (echinacea), shasta daisies, black-eyed susans, large yellow hyacinths for the front yard, cosmos, forget-me-nots, and blazing star, bearded irises, and a dwarf nandina firepower shrub to replace those that were eaten by the local groundhog or the voles.
In the spring, I'm going to buy astilbe, salvia, a Moon Madonna daylily, and Physostegia virginiana.
We have a lot of clearing out and weeding to do in the next three months...
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Oh, lordy woman! I am in that dilemma today myself! We're all finally attacking the garden in preparation for winter and I am so frustrated with the summer fruit results that I think were just going to take a season off! I still may have oranges and lemons soon...wish me luck!
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