After all the rain everything looks good.
I potted up the three Black & Blue salvias in big containers. Too soon --- they won't like the chilly nights and cool windy April days, but there is no frost forecast in the next 10 days, so they can get used to the garden even if they won't take off yet.
I
am excited that the blackhaw viburnums are finally blooming this year.
The one under the bathroom window was planted in 2006, so after six
years, it's nice to see a few blooms. The newer one, in the small
garden fronting Meadow's Edge, actually has more blooms. It was planted
in 2009, and transplanted in 2010.
The geums are still so cute, but hard to photograph. Same thing for the spreading forget me nots.
Tiarellas are opening and look much better than last year.
Blueberries are laden with flowers, and are quite attractive in their new open location in front of Meadow's Edge.
Epimediums are filling out. I really wish I had switched the cultivars!! Rubrum, under the maple in back, is delicate light green and should go under the pink flowering dogwood. The flowers, which come out a little later than the dogwood, are pink and magenta.
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| Rubrum, under the maple |
Frohnleiten, under the pink dogwood, has red and green and bronze foliage, and sulphur yellow flowers that come out exactly when the dogwood blooms and they don't go together. It would look better under the maple, where there is more of a golden and red thing going on with emerging foliage.
Would I even think about switching them? Too much to dig up established patches? Should I do it next fall?
The little tiny Ajuga Chocolate Chip plants are blooming a rich dark blue that will look good, when they spread, under the coppery zenobia foliage that still persists. The new zenobia foliage is powdery green blue.
The ajuga is so pretty close in, but as you can see, they are still new and haven't spread, and can't even be seen in the mulch! I ordered more, but these just have to mature and spread some.
