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I did it again...

Allegheny — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 17:49:39 GMT

I swore up and down I was done buying new plants and was just going to concentrate on dividing and transplanting.

I failed. Came home with a coppertina ninebark, a helleri holly and a brandywine viburnum, a purple rooster monarda didyma, and a sedum.

If it wasn't for having to dig thru crappy clay and amending the soil I would easily have probably bought several more shrubs.

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penelopelane — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 18:49:37 GMT

Plants end up jumping in my cart too! Lol

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Mary Bailey — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 19:02:10 GMT

@Allegheny That sounds exactly like me!

I usually do it with clearance plants, probably some sort of pine or shade flower to mix with my hostas. Last year I got a weeping pine, the year before an Austrian pine.

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Julie928 — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 22:11:35 GMT

I LOVE IT!!! As us gardeners know all too well, there is always room for one more, okay, maybe ten more plants! There is a wonderful lady down the street from us that sells perennials and annuals on her front lawn. She doesn't do it everyday, but when she does I always come home with something. So.....today's haul includes one large hosta, four creeping jennies, one yellow geranium and one potted dancing lady violet. Then I went to Aldi and bought three potted sunflowers. We are having a backyard party tomorrow and I thought they would look pretty on the tables. Have I any control? Nope!!! :-)

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ValuSkr — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 00:31:49 GMT

It's very hard to resist more plants! I've been pretty good this year, as I'm flat out of space - putting in a new plant usually requires removing something else. And I'm pretty happy with the way things are. But I still browse at the nurseries, always looking for a bargain. Maybe later this month, when markdowns on perennials start.

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Nataliesgramma — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 09:56:04 GMT

I can't look around a nursery without coming home with something either....LOL

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mousiegirl — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 19:21:27 GMT

@Allegheny wrote:
I swore up and down I was done buying new plants and was just going to concentrate on dividing and transplanting.

I failed. Came home with a coppertina ninebark, a helleri holly and a brandywine viburnum, a purple rooster monarda didyma, and a sedum.

If it wasn't for having to dig thru crappy clay and amending the soil I would easily have probably bought several more shrubs.

@Allegheny In spite of my crappy clay soil, lol, I buy plants like crazy, and amend, amend, amend, the soil.

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Allegheny — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 20:57:22 GMT

@Allegheny In spite of my crappy clay soil, lol, I buy plants like crazy, and amend, amend, amend, the soil.

@mousiegirl I've seen your pictures and shared them with my husband. I am just amazed!

I don't mind digging the holes, actually have fun making baseballs out of the sticky yellow muck and pitching it in the woods. I am thinking I need to stock pile top soil.

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mousiegirl — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 21:14:17 GMT

@Allegheny wrote:

@Allegheny In spite of my crappy clay soil, lol, I buy plants like crazy, and amend, amend, amend, the soil.

@mousiegirl I've seen your pictures and shared them with my husband. I am just amazed!
I don't mind digging the holes, actually have fun making baseballs out of the sticky yellow muck and pitching it in the woods. I am thinking I need to stock pile top soil.
@Allegheny I had a truck load of soil amendment brought in and dumped in the driveway, so DH loads a wheelbarrow and dumps it in the planting areas. When DH would compost all leaves, twigs, etc. in a machine years ago, we had the best soil, not to mention the bunny t--ds, lol, but no machine and no bunnies any longer, but I do have a vege/fruit compost bin to add to those plants, and some chicken you know what.

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Mary Bailey — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 21:18:36 GMT

@Allegheny I failed twice today!

I bought an Weeping Alaskan Cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis "Pendula) and a Limber Pine, Vanderwolf's Pyramid (Pinus flexilis).

DH cut out three bushes. He had them out by the time I got back. .

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JustJazzmom — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 22:54:02 GMT

@Allegheny wrote:

@Allegheny In spite of my crappy clay soil, lol, I buy plants like crazy, and amend, amend, amend, the soil.

@mousiegirl I've seen your pictures and shared them with my husband. I am just amazed!
I don't mind digging the holes, actually have fun making baseballs out of the sticky yellow muck and pitching it in the woods. I am thinking I need to stock pile top soil.

Stock pile compost instead. There is no set standard for topsoil as to quality. Compost can make clay soils less water retentive and sandy soils more water retentive.

I use top soil only to level out any dips in the lawn.

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Lilysmom — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:48:02 GMT

Well girls, I am joining your club. I am full up BUT I had to get a climbing hydrangea to crawl up over a bare rock that is creating a downpour zone in a heavy rain. That is totally my fault as I cleared this huge rock off myself. It had dead trees growing out of it. Of course I had to clean it up. My bad.

I also bought some creeping thyme which I am planting en masse to protect a slope from erosion.

Other than this, I have been good🙄! LM

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Allegheny — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 18:39:00 GMT

@Lilysmom

I never heard of climbing hydrangea so I just googled it.

Oh no....I need one of them too.

When we had some professional landscaping done three years back we had them bring in huge boulders to construct two mulched planting beds along our drive. I've been day dreaming about something that would climb. I'm not one for roses.

I think I have my work cut out for me this year. So I am going to be on the look about for next gardening season. Thank you for making my day!

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Lilysmom — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 19:23:32 GMT

@Allegheny, oh no! Not like you needed me to get your going!

I have also planted some clematis this year. I have one going up a post where I have a bird house and I have two more, one of which will climb part of my huge rock I hope.

I don't have any roses either so I had to put on my thinking cap for a solution to the problem I created with the rock.

And I thought I was being so good. The sales were just too hard to resist! LM

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JustJazzmom — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 22:06:39 GMT

@Allegheny wrote:
@Lilysmom

I never heard of climbing hydrangea so I just googled it.

Oh no....I need one of them too.

When we had some professional landscaping done three years back we had them bring in huge boulders to construct two mulched planting beds along our drive. I've been day dreaming about something that would climb. I'm not one for roses.

I think I have my work cut out for me this year. So I am going to be on the look about for next gardening season. Thank you for making my day!

Make sure you have strong trellises for climbing hydrangea.