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Bought two perennials from Zone 8 in Wilmington yesterday and planted them today. In the bed with a river birch on each end and the Abelia in the middle, the bed is in the shape of a rough figure 8.

The first one is a Phlox called "Miss Kelly". 1 gallon, $5.99 and the second was just labeled as Salvia giganticum in a 3 gallon for $9.99. It has blue, blue flowers on it. I hope it turns out to be as good of a purchase as my Salvia "Maraschino" has been. I love that plant.

April 24, 2002

The crinum lilies that I received in a trade 2 years ago are finally blooming. I first put them in the grapevine bed but last summer, I moved them to my large perennial bed. They are stunning. Well worth the wait.

All my roses are blooming though the Joseph's Coat is getting dug up and thrown out. Stuart picked it out and I knew it was going to be fussy trouble but let it ride for a year. It looks like crap, is almost completely defoliated and I'm not spraying anything this early in the season.

The Bleeding Heart is finished as is the Solomon's Seal and the maroon Trillium. All this in the teeny tiny little patch of shade garden. Which is just now recovering from the trampling of 6 puppies this past late winter. My Louisiana Iris won't be blooming this year I don't believe....

Stuart cleaned out the pond last week. It needed it desparately. All 5 fish are getting fatter and longer and are now 5x the size they were when we first bought them.

I also did a bit of clean-up myself. I dug up and got rid of not one or two but THREE wheelbarrows full of a burgundy leaved Canna lily that is trying to take over my part of North Carolina. Big, gigantic bulbs larger around than my legs. I still have two clumps of them, on either end of the grapevine bed.

I also dug up and threw out the rose that was supposed to be a 'Seven Sisters' rose but looked and acted exactly like an old Fairy rose that I've got. I'm getting rid of the Fairy roses too. Not pretty, too thorny and get too big too fast. I just don't like them.

April 26, 2002

A banner day today in plant finds. 1 full grown Centranthus ruber 'Jupiter's Beard' for $3.75 from Jer*agans. I broke down and picked up a few annuals from T*rts since they agreed to some internet advertising. I like to patronize the businesses that help me out you know. So they have a new, very small, plant thing going on along with the produce stuff.

So I picked up two little 4" pots of purple wave petunias, an 8 pack cell of white petunias, a pink geranium with magenta eye and a small lavender plant. $11.75

And then Stuart decided that we needed to go to Smithfield Applebee's and the Lowe's. I spent $20 there on:

1 Agapanthus 'Blue Lily Of The Nile', 1 Coreopsis grandiflora 'Tequila Sunrise' that I split into two plants and 1 pot of Poppies: Papaver nudicaule 'Champagne Bubbles'.

All the perennials went into the grapevine arbor bed.