I did it again...

Allegheny · ‎03-19-2010

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.

penelopelane · ‎06-05-2015

Plants end up jumping in my cart too! Lol

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Mary Bailey · ‎03-09-2010

@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.

Julie928 · ‎04-08-2013

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!!! :-)

ValuSkr · ‎03-15-2014

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.

Nataliesgramma · ‎03-28-2015

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

mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

@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.

Allegheny · ‎03-19-2010

@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.

mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

@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.