{"id":4713,"date":"2018-11-26T03:20:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T03:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=4713"},"modified":"2018-11-26T03:20:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T03:20:07","slug":"memory-garden-finished-for-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/26\/memory-garden-finished-for-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory Garden Finished for 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>I\u2019ve worked hard the last six weeks to get all of the plants I had grown or purchased for the Armando Garden planted.\u00a0 \u00a0It was slow, physical work moving all the bark off and then back on the garden, and digging holes in the packed soil.\u00a0 But, it is done for the year.\n

The newest half of that garden doesn\u2019t look like much\u2013all the plants are smallish or completely dormant.\u00a0 But they hold a lot of promise.<\/p>\n

The best gardens are typically built by using multiples of good garden plants and large groupings.\u00a0 I feel an urgency to plant special plants that I\u2019ve always wanted to grow, so I added a bunch of those in the garden.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the interesting highlights from Annie\u2019s Annuals<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Euphorbia characias \u201cDwarf\u201d<\/p>\n

$\"Euphorbia$ <\/p>\n

Below is Glaucium flavum<\/p>\n

$\"Glaucium$ <\/p>\n

This is Knifophia thomsonii, which I had in a pot all summer and it sent up two flower spikes, despite the cramped quarters.<\/p>\n

Anthemis sancti-johannis<\/p>\n

$\"Anthemis$ <\/p>\n

Aster \u201cHarrington\u2019s Pink\u201d (I did group 3 of these)<\/p>\n

Geranium pyrenaicum \u201cBill Wallis\u201d\u2013I grouped 3 of these, as well.<\/p>\n

$\"Geranium$ <\/p>\n

And this scented pink, Dianthus \u201cScent First Coconut Surprise\u201d<\/p>\n

$\"Dianthus$ <\/p>\n

I also set out what I believe to be a Yucca rostrata that I\u2019ve been nursing along in the greenhouse for about 3 years.\u00a0 I would love for it to look like this one day:<\/p>\n

$\"Yucca$ <\/p>\n

And then there are the bulbs that I planted from John Scheepers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tulip Antoinette\u2013I planted 20 of these in groups of five.<\/p>\n

And these somewhat similar \u201cFlaming Purissima\u201d tulips, also 20 planted in groups of 5.<\/p>\n

I planted 25 of these Camassia quamash bulbs, in 3 groups of 7-9 bulbs.<\/p>\n

I have one of these in a pot that has bloomed beautifully for years, so I thought I\u2019d try planting some in the Memory Garden.\u00a0 There are 25 bulbs in 3 groups of 7-9 bulbs.\u00a0 These are Corydalis solida.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always loved Hyacinths, but usually in pots.\u00a0 I had a lot of ground to cover, though, and 20 mixed-color Hyacinth bulbs, so I went ahead and planted them in groups of 3-5.<\/p>\n

And the big, later blooming lily bulbs, Lilium \u201cBlack Beauty\u201d.\u00a0 I planted three bulbs in one group and two of them as individuals.<\/p>\n

And these Fritillaria persica bulbs, which I planted in a group of 3 in the Memory Garden and another 2 in the driveway bed.<\/p>\n

Last, I planted another Fritillaria in the Douglas Fir bed, this one Fritillaria raddeana.<\/p>\n

I am hopeful that we\u2019ll have a good, wet winter that will water these plants in, and enough cold to chill the bulbs appropriately.<\/p>\n

I believe the memory bed has over 300 plants\/bulbs in it.\u00a0 Half of it is looking pretty full and lush, and the other half is newly planted, but should still provide a lot of blooms and beauty next year.<\/p>\n

One thing that I gave up on is trying to perfectly design the garden.\u00a0 There is no perfect design, anyway, and I only have so much time, so I just planted what I had in a way that made the best sense at the time.\u00a0 The great thing about gardens is that no decision needs to be final, so if things don\u2019t work out well, I can shift things around and I intend to add things for years to come to fill in the blank spots.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve worked hard the last six weeks to get all of the plants I had grown or purchased for the Armando Garden planted.\u00a0 \u00a0It was slow, physical work moving all the bark off and then back on the garden, and digging holes in the packed soil.\u00a0 But, it is done for the year. The newest … Continue reading Memory Garden Finished for 2018<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4882,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}