Moving...

FYI everyone...all two or three of you!

I am moving this blog over to Tumblr...it's just easier to have it all in one place. 

Maybe over the winter I will move all the posts over...that's a good project.

http://www.tumblr.com/tumblelog/oldladybirdgarden

Just a quick photo update of what is blooming in my garden.

The first photo is just a look down the south-east bed which is currently full of tulips. In the foreground, there is one of many blue fescue and in front some more Johnny Jump Ups. They keep appearing and I keep digging them up and moving them to this spot.

More of the tulips I planted last fall. I filled a bag with various bulbs in my chosen colour palette (orange, red, yellow, white) and let them get mixed up before planting.


Look at those luscious red ones at the back! There is blue, purple and green in the petals. Definitely adding more of this variety this fall.

More tulips. I really like that tiny striped one on the bottom left.


Behind it you can see the long grass of the daylilies, some columbine getting ready and beside it some pretty burgundy Coral Bells.

 Hyacinth. I picked the orange-y pink but J wanted some of the blue/purple ones...they are coming up in a different part of the yard.

One of my favourites and I think quite a classy bit of green. This is Lady's Mantle. This is her second year in my shade garden and I am hoping that she blooms. Lady's Mantle gets these lovely little yellow clumps of flowers but I think she really shines when the rain beads on her leaves.






Just a few more things to do over the weekend. Decide where J's sunflower garden will go, plant another row of sweet peas along the fence, plant some of the veg and see if any of the foxglove I have started in basement are ready to move out from under the artificial light in the basement and into the real world.

Gorgeous day here in Calgary aside from the Lethbridge style wind. I headed out to the garden centres last night, found a few things but was mostly disappointed in the selection so far this year. This morning, I was sitting in the car at 10 to 9 waiting for Green Gate to open. I generally try to stay away from the stand alone garden centres in favour of my local Canadian Tire and it's cheaper prices but my impatience won out.

Apparently, the growers are behind this year and that is why the perennial selections are so terrible. Ah but that didn't stop me! After trips to over 6 places today, I came home with the list below for my dry & sunny south bed.

Common Thrift, white
Geum Borisii, orange
Bellbalm, fuschia (my second one...for balance)
Blazing Star, white
Miniature Dwarf Bearded Iris, white
Dwarf Arctic Iris, purple & white
Snowdrop Anemone for the shady corner
Penny Mickey Viola, purple & white
Drumstick Thrift, pink
English Daisy, white
Blue Fescue  (for continuity, I have a bunch already)
Mounding Geranium, pink

I am still debating over adding another Hollyhock against the house or more white Galahad Delphiniums.

I just reread my last post and realized that I totally changed my plans for this bed but I think it will look great.

Here are a couple pics of the plants I bought today.

Images from:
Arctic Iris myfolia.com 
DrumstickThrift davesgarden.com  
Blazing Star  backyardlandscaping.net