Watching the snow fall softly blanketing the earth for the first time this winter, my heart is already yearning for spring. I am wanting to experiment with some new varieties of flowers in my gardens.
Monks Cap is a two foot tall purple beauty that I want to place in front of the three foot purple columbine. Success with delphiniums and foxgloves has eluded me for years now, the plants never seem to grow no matter where I plant them - but I am ready to try again this year. Their graceful blooms are among my favorites.
The Sitka roses have been in their round growing strong roots for two years now, and are ready for transplanting in their new home around a white spruce tree in the front yard. We have been beefing up the soil 'round that tree all last year, with ashes, turkey droppings, hay and organic soil. Started out of gravel, and it is a difficult spot for the tree shelters out the rain by not the sun - making for a very dry spot for everything you plant underneath it. Last year we stuck in daisies and two roses, the roses survived but the daisies are still a close call.
My white poppies from two years ago self seeded and gave me some real beauties last year, so this year I am sticking in two blood-red feathery Orientals which hopefully will thrive and reproduce. Walks-on-me is the new groundcover I am trying. Periwinkle didn't do much, nor did turf, so I am still looking for that hearty evergreen to take over the forest pathways.
Spreading salt on the sea sand paths themselves certainly curtailed the weeds from overtaking them. A lesson from watching a documentary about the Romans on the history channel. No more taking out the machete to hack a path to the outhouse.
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