Not the plants, me. ok, no really die, either.

I can’t seem to finish. I took two days off, and even after today’s work most of those poor irises sitting in a bin still need a home! I dug up the rest of that area and added compost and replanted some irises there. It doesn’t have room for the others, not unless I put them in the shady part.

(I avoided planting trees because I didn’t want shade. I planted sunlovers, and I didn’t want them smothered out. But somehow, I seem to be running out of full zone space. 80-some daylilies, anyone? ;) )

So, ok, Transcendant Artistry needs to be divided. I could put it back in the semi-shady zone by those iris, because it did ok there before, but the area is growing gradually shadier as the red twig dogwood ‘shrub’ spread out and thickens up. Or I could move it over to the edge of the circle, where I just moved out some other daylilies.

I moved a Frances Joiner & a Sweet Obsession to the new peach strip, behind Roguchi. I had to move a geranium (phaem or something similar, chocolate spots) and I put that over where the x red daylily and Helix used to be, half under the nandina domestica. Which I like so I don’t want to move it, even though it is part of the shade on the iris bed.

I moved the spirea I didn’t send to my brother after all, from next to the corner of the house where it was going to be too big for the space to the front fenceline. I put Aesthetic Ballet in front of it, near Pewter Lake. I have a gap to the right of AB where I can put . . . .something. And another gap in the red zone.

I’m thinking I could move Divertissement, Cameroons, and Yabba Dabba Doo to the curve (going toward the side yard) but I might have to move the veronica that’s there (the upright but falls over over variety), and a Decatur Apricot behind it, and some lychnis that will totally take over if it’s left. I could put some irises where they were, but I’ll have trouble with the veronica peduncularis growing over them. Maybe that’s not a good idea.

Why did I buy irises? They seem to dislike living with other plants so much. Oh, right, they are pretty flowers.

I still have half a page of notes that say swap Frank and Startle. No, put Frank where Song is. Put Song at circle right. Move RR by AB? Don’t forget Raspberry Star. And, underlined twice, IRISES. Far Niente? Move extra Frances from circle right, also PB.

And, shockingly, the side yard where I have been stashing duplicates and, oops, fans that got lost from their clumps and are now ?s, is - almost full.

aster – (why isn’t this in my plant list? I got it from one of those really cheap catalogs as “super aster” and it does a nice job.)
love in a mist
anemone japonica ‘alba’
fuchsia Diana Wright
butterfly bush