score!

[jinian]

I got vast amounts of plant biomass today from kin-by-partnerships who have a huge stunning yard near Roanoke Park. Wow. It was a great day to start with, since I got up later than usual and got to play in the garden all day, but then I received:

• Podophyllum pleianthum (a baby: just one leaf)


• Crocosmia (two clumps. color unknown! woohoo!)


• Cardoon (one crown of four they had, not enough roots so I cut its leaves wayway back)


• unknown bush-of-sunflowers perennial (two edge pieces of a MASSIVE WOODY CROWN OF DOOM)


• Acanthus (big. heavy. gorgeous.)


• Lady's mantle (two big pots of, with flowers coming)


• Cape-fuchsia (some yellow-flowered and some red, current pot arrangement unknown)

I've planted only the crocosmia, because it goes perfectly in the place I was weeding before I got it, and the sunflower-bush. The cardoon is in a trash can full of water, looking like a jagged-stemmed paintbrush and, I hope, taking on enough water through its skimpy brush of rootlets. Everybody else got plenty of mulch in their pots and a good soaking, and I'll work with them tomorrow. My hip hurts kind of a lot and my back is reminding me that I ought to have cramps, but I'm very pleased with my day. Happy summer!

Comments

[pameladean]

Crocosmia! *yearn* It's not hardy here.

Summer. Hee. It was 31 degrees when I got up. Luckily nothing is abroad or afoot or aroot or whatever that minds a little frost. All the blossoming trees are suspended, a few flowers open here and there, waiting for the sun to make an actual as opposed to a symbolic appearance.

P.

[eub.livejournal.com]

Many happy plants of the day!

Also, cardooon.

Re: score!

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

woohoo! planty goodness, and such cool specimens, too!

[beaq.livejournal.com]

Happy summer. :-)

How'd the cardoon do? I look forward to finding out what color the crocosmia. What lovely of a place, to be able to grow crocosmia.

I wonder if you'd pop over to bean_west and help me identify a plant in my last set of pics. The last, tall plant, but if you know the geraniums, that would be nifty.

Also, would you like to go to Heronswood sometime this season?

[jinian.livejournal.com]

The cardoon looks now like a startled paintbrush, which speaks well of its water uptake while in the rain-bucket; now to see where I will put it. (Today's plantstuffdoing went toward installing two pinks I got at the grocery store and queueing up plants to move off the porch and into the big dirt.)

I've still never been to Heronswood, and I'd love to go. What a good idea. Let's do it! I'm working weekdays but most weekends are all right by me.