Two new clematis, to grow up the retaining wall and trellis around the raised garden: Clematis 'Warsaw Nike', with deep red/purple, rounded petals (this one blooms on both old and new wood), and Clematis x "Hagley Hybrid", a delicate pink, pointy-petaled "compact, reliable" clematis.
Several bog plants/irises which I ordered online weeks ago and which have been sitting, waiting patiently, in a black garbage bag since they arrived a few days ago. They looked OK and not too traumatised... we'll see.
And a flowering dogwood. Pink. Right in the middle of the front lawn. :-)
Went to Forge River Nursery, they only had a small cream one. They will have more later in the week, probably a pink one included, but I was too impatient. So I drove just a little further along Montauk Highway, and found a garden centre (I think it's Farmhouse Farms), just in Moriches on the north side of the road. They had a pink one, just the right size: big, but not so big that I couldn't get it from the truck to the planting spot. It is Cornus x "Rutgan", "Stellar Pink" flowering dogwood.
I wonder why I never saw these in California? Did the Rockies get in the way? OK they are native to the eastern states, but that doesn't usually stop something nicely decorative making its way from one coast to another... maybe I just wasn't looking.
Several bog plants/irises which I ordered online weeks ago and which have been sitting, waiting patiently, in a black garbage bag since they arrived a few days ago. They looked OK and not too traumatised... we'll see.
And a flowering dogwood. Pink. Right in the middle of the front lawn. :-)
Went to Forge River Nursery, they only had a small cream one. They will have more later in the week, probably a pink one included, but I was too impatient. So I drove just a little further along Montauk Highway, and found a garden centre (I think it's Farmhouse Farms), just in Moriches on the north side of the road. They had a pink one, just the right size: big, but not so big that I couldn't get it from the truck to the planting spot. It is Cornus x "Rutgan", "Stellar Pink" flowering dogwood.
I wonder why I never saw these in California? Did the Rockies get in the way? OK they are native to the eastern states, but that doesn't usually stop something nicely decorative making its way from one coast to another... maybe I just wasn't looking.
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