so close...
We have just a handful of plants left to put into the ground. We could have finished the tonight, but I was just a bit too tired to care about finishing up. I still need to plant the agastache / anise hyssop (which is neither anise nor hyssop - this is why you need to know the Latin name even if you can't pronounce or spell it reliably) seedlings and formosa lily seedlings from my coworker, liriope from my other coworker, a malva, a bag of gladiolus (what the heck is the plural of that - gladioli???), a contorted walking stick thing that needs to be put into a real pot, a stinking hellebore (that's it's real name (helleborus foetidus or something like that)), and three heucheras/coral bells.
I asked Adam today to leave part of the German irises uncovered when he planted them because they do better in our clay soil if they're not too deep. I failed to tell him not to put three inches of mulch on top of them after planting them like that. This is why he usually plants the shrubs and I plant the perennials. . .
It'll be a full week before my drip irrigation supplies arrive. Happily, it's supposed to rain this week. I need to find a new source - there are other companies that sell the same products that don't ship from CA (found one in VA, in fact), but I was in a hurry and didn't want to futz around with the order too much, so stuck with DripWorks, which is expensive and time-consuming for shipping, but reliable.
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In non-garden news (ack!), I have a draft of my presentation done and sent to my coauthors. Presentation is two weeks from tomorrow.
I asked Adam today to leave part of the German irises uncovered when he planted them because they do better in our clay soil if they're not too deep. I failed to tell him not to put three inches of mulch on top of them after planting them like that. This is why he usually plants the shrubs and I plant the perennials. . .
It'll be a full week before my drip irrigation supplies arrive. Happily, it's supposed to rain this week. I need to find a new source - there are other companies that sell the same products that don't ship from CA (found one in VA, in fact), but I was in a hurry and didn't want to futz around with the order too much, so stuck with DripWorks, which is expensive and time-consuming for shipping, but reliable.
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In non-garden news (ack!), I have a draft of my presentation done and sent to my coauthors. Presentation is two weeks from tomorrow.