Just keep working...

This spring is hard! We've gone from record breaking cold and wet, to record breaking heat with high wind and low humidity. It's enough to make a gardener crazy! I've been working like a much younger version of me, trying to make up for the havoc the bad winter caused in the garden while also doing my usual spring container migration and implementing a few design changes that I felt needed to be made. I prefer to share projects here on the blog once they're completed, but with the demands of our extreme weather I've been skipping around the garden dipping in and out of things depending on what could or could not be done for the sake of the plants, in other words a lot is in the works, but not much is completed. Here are a few quick updates with more to come later...

I bought several new plants this spring, the idea was that holes from winter needed to be filled and I was fleshing out a couple of new plantings. However, we went from the soil being to wet to dig in, to temperatures that one should not be planting in. Thus we wait (this was supposed to be a photo of a few plants in holding in the driveway stock-tanks, instead it turned out to be mainly peony foliage). I need to get these plants out to their permanent homes so I can plant tomatoes and basil here!

Remember Holman, the plant I brought home from the Yucca rostrata rescue my friend Eric and I did last September? Well, after spending winter in a container in the driveway he's finally in the ground.
I've yet to deal with the surrounding Leucothoe fontanesiana 'Rainbow' (it's got to go) or plant the xeric plants I've collected for this area, but getting Holman in the ground is a start.
Another big front garden change is underway, as the annually pollarded Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple' was removed (thanks Andrew!) and a previously hidden Yucca linearifolia was moved into it's place, along with a stunted Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Wissel's Saguaro'. More to come on this area as well, once I can get back out there and finish it up.
Winter did a number on the area to the left of the palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) and I've got to get in there and dig out a couple dead stumps and plant a couple of "new" things. Soon...
This area was bare soil a few weeks ago, thankfully fresh spring growth has exploded! Usually there would be a couple of galvanized dish planters in there standing tall, and colorful bromeliads that I drop into the ferny undergrowth. Not this year. Changes underway. Slow changes....(rusty changes).
The shade pavilion greenhouse walls came down (finally) on May 6th. Containers were moved to the patio, and then I spent most of the week after that hauling plants up from the basement, including the ones that get mounted on the fence. The patio is currently a mash-up of containers plopped in their approximate place. I'm planting-up some of those (ones whose contents didn't make it through the winter) with new occupants and hoping to have the time and energy arrange them all soon (maybe when the temps drop back down into the 80's?).  

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