Moving Plants

It is so good to be working out in the yard again. The sun was really warm and the sky was clear. However, the wind was a bit nippy and made sitting in the shade tough.

Pruning trees: took quite a few branches off the north pear tree and a little off the south tree. We also did some trimming on the tulip tree on the parking strip.

South of garage: We moved two ornamental grass plants, splitting the one so that we had three plants; one each edge of the garage and one in the middle. In between we marked the place for the cat mint with a stake. I still need to purchase that this spring. We planted the new lillium--16 plants in all. The Centerfold went in back with two plants and then one each of the Lollipop and the Algarve in front. I look forward to those blooming this summer.

Our next task was to plant the new peony and move one of the ones purchased last year. This was pretty easy since the beds were ready. We put the dark pink Karl Rosenfeld in line with the old white one toward the east. The pink one that was purchased last year we moved to inside the garden. It will fill in the space between the honeysuckle vine and the burning bush.

We then moved the other honeysuckle vine to the opposite side of the arbor. Wayne had to do quite a bit of digging to prepare the place and then we trimmed the old vine and dug it up. The roots were huge so I hope we got enough of them to get it established in its permanant home. Once the job was complete it looked good. Now just to see if they will take root.

We still have two more peonies to move, but that will have to wait until next week to do that.
I was pleased to find that the burning bush that gave us so much trouble has buds. This means that our uprooting it and replanting it as well as pruning back the dead, has saved it. I just hope we can eventually prune it so that it is a nice shape again. Right now it's a little lopsided.

Now that the vine is out of the planter on the south side we can get the wild grass cleaned out of it and make use of that bed. I need to spend time deciding upon more plants for the south east corner of the lot. When I find them, I can plant them in this area and tend them until they are ready to move. I look forward to doing that.