Moving Day

Cold, wet, mid 40s, overcast and soggy.  Where is spring?  Despite the cherry in full flower now and the forsythias too, it was too gray today to take pictures.  Maybe tomorrow.

I used Holly Tone on the yellow looking meserve hollies on the berm, and on the yellow leaved dwarf buddleia 'Blue Chip" in the pot.

Today was moving day.  I moved a bunch of plants around:

The male kiwi vines 
The pots in front of the meters do not work there.  One pot was in standing water, like the rosemary was, and despite reaming out the drainage hole, it wouldn't drain.  The potting soil smelled rank.  The white plastic trellis, stuck in the two pots, just wobbled around disturbing any roots.  So I took them out, moved them to the far side of the patio wall, under the 'Bloodgood' maple, and we'll see if they scramble along the brick wall. I had to take out a big clump of Becky shasta daisies (I moved those to the back of the berm where they may peek up above the hollies.)

can I get the two vines to scramble on the wall, and up the deck posts?

These poor male vines have been abused and misplanted and replanted twice now, and badly handled since I put them in last year.  The female vines (to the left of this picture at the porch), look great.

The irises
I moved the bearded irises ('Beverly Sills' and 'Immortality') to the Birch Garden, and divided them into about a dozen plants.  Boy, did they multiply in one season.  I then moved some of the languishing Siberian irises out of the Birch Garden and into the wet Meadow's Edge.  I also divided these.  We'll see what they do, if anything.

The goatsbeard
When I planted the Aruncus dioicus last year it just about up and died in the hot spring and summer.  There was literally no above ground growth on it when I dug it up, potted it, and brought it in to the porch for winter.  It survived and is putting on growth in its pot.  I planted it out by the creek bed. 

(I didn't think it would recover, and ordered another one from mail order. I guess I'll put that one in the new garden on the east side where it will get afternoon shade.  Then I can see which does better.  They are slow to establish, I know that.)

Then I moved some cushion moss to make a little vignette in the birdbath that always rusted:

some vermiculite and mosses.