Garden list

Been busy. Tidying all the garden borders, removing weeds, digging, trimming, removing dead stuff, planting...

Thanks to Barbara who sold me some nice things from her garden yesterday, there are some new arrivals, and I've been able to fill the bed at the back right of the raised garden, where there were only weeds and one patch of chives before. Now it has Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus), Red-Hot Pokers (Kniphofia uvaria), and Canna Lilies (Cannaceae), red ones. The cannas will need to be lifted for the winter, at the first frost. I put some Crocosmia (Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora) in the bed too: the usual red ones, and some yellow.

The right of the pond, where the overgrown hedge used to be, is where nasturtiums, miniature sunflowers and poppies have gone. No mulch for that bed! The poppies need daylight to germinate. Poppies include Papaver rhoeas Angel's Choir (mixed, double), "Watermelon Heaven" (a California poppy), and Papaver orientale "Pizzicato Mix" (semi-dwarf).

I can't believe Burpee are so mean with the number of poppy seeds. There were about twenty in each packet (the Watermelon and the Pizzicato). By the time you've wrestled open the little inner packet, and found the few seeds clinging statically to the sides, you wonder if it's worth it. The packet of Angel's Choir was much fuller (Thompson & Morgan). Will remember that.

Around the steps to the deck: several daylilies, more crocosmia, and a couple of blue thistly things whose name I can't remember... will update this later.