2006 Spring/Summer season
Using this space to list plants purchased this year -2006;
- Eastern Snowball (bush/shrub) front yard
- Mugho Pine (2) Pumilio mugo pine front raised bed
- Hosta (Honeybells) side flower bed
- Achilbe (2) lower shaded rock garden and new wheelbarrow garden under maple tree
- Poker Plant lower shaded rock garden
- Coral Bells - Lilly of the Valley lower shaded rock garden
- Elephant ear lower shaded rock garden
- Primrose Beauty - Potentilla Futicosa (evergreen shrub/bush - creamy yellow flowers) upper sunny rock garden
- Rock Rose (evergreen shrub/bush) upper sunny rock garden
- Dwarf Periwinkle (evergreen perennial ground cover) upper sunny rock garden meant to trail down by fenceline
- Little Princess Spirea (shrub/bush)
- Hebe (check variety - tag said 'la favourite'
- Rubus - Emerald Carpet (ground cover - part shade)
- Sedum Gracile (evergreen w/ white flowers, red in summer)
- Nordic Holly (sun - sedum?)
- Southernwood Artemisia Abrotanum (sun, bitter lemon leaves, use in vinegar and salads)
- Sedum Aizoon (yellow flowers 10" long)
- Wormwood Artemisia - Oriental Limelight (sun 3-4' tall)
- Ice Plant (succulent purple/pink flowers ground cover) upper rock garden
- Cardinal Flower (perennial, part shade, poisonous)
- Verbena - Homestead Purple (spreading perennial, sun) upper rock garden
- curly grass (name not known, twisty, curly grass like plant)
- Guardian Delphinium (slugs ate it)
- Coleus - three varieties
- Hibiscus - Luna Red (2) (perennial) front window bed
- Sedum - Autumn Joy (2, one in 2005, one in 2006) upper rock garden
- Tree Mallow (evergreen perennial shade, delicate everblooming pink flowers) new shade garden in wheelbarrow under maple tree
- Bleeding Heart (bush) new shade garden in wheelbarrow under maple tree
- Close out nursery sale - Grayland - scented geraniums, peppermint, orange thyme, asters and ? = planted in white stemmed flower pots
- Geraniums (3) in rose pink shades, (4) in gold and rust shades
- Heather (3) upper rock garden, and two in camellia flower bed border
- Spring/Autumn Heather (4) whiskey barrel, indoors, and 2 in camellia flower bed border
- new whiskey barrel = Eucalyptus tree; foxglove; heather; beach transplants; yellow oriental poppy, spring heather
- new whisky barrel - upright = sedums, and surrounded on sides - need central core plant specimens and then extend this part of the growing out of barrell garden into grass yard.
- Eucalyptus tree - front yard
- Rose of Sharon - 5 dry root plants from Mom - not seeing anything
- Pussywillow tree propagation from Mom seems to have taken. She calls it pussywillow tree = ?
- Propagate experiments this year didn't work out using the root cutting formula. 2 Cotton lavender propagates seems to have taken.
- Lilac tree; lost two trunks over winter and new sturdy trunk is growing up from center
- Fuschia bush cut back severely and did not suffer - can be cut back severely annually
- vegetable garden was a bust this year - slugs!!! Ate 3 plantings of seeds = zuchinni, cucumbers, squash. Beets grew well and big this year. Tomato plants did well enough. Peas and carrots did well enough. Problem = old seeds and driest summer on record with no rain.
- Comfrey/borage planted 3 yrs ago continues to return annually. This year popped up everywhere inside vegetable garden bed and rock garden. Research = these are invasive and impossible to totally rid - underground root spreading system
- Japanese flowering cherry (upright) white blooms
- hybrid - 3 varieties Apple tree
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