A new bush in the family, the continuing saga of "Sticky pot" syndrome
I have a new bush in the family. A Flaming Mound Spirea with lime yellow,
edged in the finest strokes of red along every leave, up thru the tips of the new growth shoots and spilling out into the newly emerging leaves with a bonus of pinkish red flowers at the ends of every branch in a few weeks slapped me in the face at work yesterday. I had had my eye on her or her sister when the different spireas came in a few weeks ago. I succumbed to the desires for the first ones I've already mentioned, but the Flaming Mound was so tempting........but I passed her by for awhile. But yesterday I was showing a customer some of the different Viburnum's we have, and noticed that someone had snapped up the largest and most showy of the two bushes sitting on the benches. So after no deliberation or thought, the sticky pot syndrome went into automatic overdrive, and once I was thru with the customer, I walked back to the table, unbelieving that I'd blown my chance at getting one, when deep in the leaves of some viburnums, was the smaller of the two bushes that'd come in. .........She was mine............. I picked her up, carried her to the cash register up front and told Susan that "this one is mine" where upon she glanced over and remarked "WOW, THAT'S AWESOME!!!We have THOSE????" And I grinned and said "YEP!" but neglected to tell her it was the last one so far............ Once I was clocked out, I went and grabbed up two packages of reduced Pansey booster food that was 50c a bag (one for me and one for Miz Mary's pansies that I enjoy by the driveway on my way out and in), resisted the urge to get three more pots of Japanese painted ferns, and made a bee line to the car. The drive home was awesome as the sun has broken out and the dogwoods are in full shouting white form, lighting up the woods thru the soft haze of newly emerging leaves on the trees, with pink lights scattered thru where the redbuds are finishing up, and once I got to the gate, I quietly stopped, set the Spirea out beside the fig bed, and backed the rest of the way in before Rose realized I was home. She immediately knew something was up, because as I got out, and walked over to where one of the spades I use to dig large holes with was, she gave me a funny look, started sniffing the trail I'd left and walked right over to the shrub I had decided to plant outside the edge of the fig bed amongst the Zebrina's, sedums, coreopsis that seeded outside the bed, and along side of the residing Amsonia Montana dogbane plant that is tufting up nicely with blueish paint brushes. There are so many more plants and flowers up and out now, the eye is dragged from sight to sight in a flurry of colors. Tulips I don't remember at all planting or even having as I don't buy tulips........only the little species ones.......columbines everywhere and rising up to dangle their tempting petticoats at the fairies to try on for the spring ball. Great swaths of daylily leaves, looking like rolling mini meadows with punctuations of a stray narcissus in lemon yellow, or the surprise of more blue Sultana vinca flowers in places that I had no idea the shoots had crept and settled to..........I have even found a clump of it in the pasture next door, flaunting itself along side the privet trunks with the new growth and the loud presence of the Euphorbia or common spurge I will also be removing for the rest of my days........ I had already done a clean up of the spent grasses of my Zebra clumps, and I'd also come home the other day with a dainty little grass called China doll that I might have plunked in the wrong spot............next to the Amsonia. If I should move it, someone tell me now............. A pot of creeping red Phlox called simply 'RED' was sitting patiently where I'd placed it on top of the pot of soft lavender phlox in the herb jar, so I dutifully dug into the rich soil and shoved it up to it's neck and it's contrasting nicely and will come along eventually into itself and hopefully blend with the rest of the phlox. It wouldn't do for me to have a spot to actually PLANT these ground hugging spring plants.............how I long for a small wall to hang the phlox, Alyssum, and Iberis to wander adn bulk up and make a mass of mounding colors.................given time, there might be an odd little wall somewhere up front g even if it's a mini wall! The pussy willow still hasn't found a spot to call home, and there is a new red dogwood that Squire insisted on planting in full view of from the balcony off the little mini den beside my nook, so I might just have to plant it a few feet beside her.......... Thanks for the time. This week will be one of spring perfection in regards to weather and more flowers before the Easter weekend. I won't be back for a bit, but there will most deffinately be continuing sagas of flower madness abounding up here in fairy holler. madgardener, up on the ridge, back in my fairy holler, overlooking a greening up English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee--zone 6b, Sunset zone 36 |
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