Plant shipment

I received a huge shipment of plants from Jung on Thursday so I did a bit of planting today with more plans for tomorrow.

I started at my parents house and planted three varieties of rhubarb (Crimson Red, Victoria, Canada Red) there and took more pictures of their spring flowers.

Compare the two pictures below taken about 9:00 a.m.

with the two below taken around 3:00 p.m.

Even a couple of the tulips had open up fully during the day (you can tell it was a windy day).

Now, on to the actual planting I did today.

In the pots in the picture above I planted petunias (white pot on the left), snap dragons (two green hanging baskets),  Skaugun Begonias (two black pots), gazinias (far right right pot and white hanging pot), Gladiolus (middle two grey/green cups).  I had previously planted collard greens in two of the pots and as you can see, I dragged out my rosemary plant and the pot with thyme and sage. 

I will add to this our orange and lemon trees, our avocado tree (if it survives – it has suddenly dropped 90% of its leaves), an angel trumpet plant (which has yet to arrive) and two pots of callas (which have yet to arrive).

Here are some close ups of the above:

Then in the shade I have two hanging baskets of begonias next to our new bird bath.  This looks a little awkward right now but in a couple of weeks, I will have transformed that area into a little paradise with a bridge, dry stream (with rocks), a couple of lawn ornaments and plants such as woodland wild flowers including jack-in-the-pulpit, astible, periwinkle, creeping red sedum, and St. John’s Wart. 

Then in the backyard I finished weeding the empty plot, worked in some compost I had made, and planted Monarda (Jacob Climb, Purple Rooster, and Gardenview Scarlet), Phlox (Laura and David), Loraine Sunshine Heliopsis, and Dianthus.  When I receive my shipment from Burgess, I will add lavender and perennial carnations.

We stopped by Stein’s today and picked up a new lawn ornament for our back yard.

It’s always exciting to see the new growth at the start of spring so here are a few pictures.

All of our hydrangeas made it through the harsh winter!

Here are the autumn joys and peonies:

And the plot of perennials I planted last year (which I weeded today):

Tomorrow, my goal is to get the window box planted, my herbs planted, and if we are ambitions, the bridge put together.