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Well, the weather got steadily warmer over the course the week and then crashed again overnight. Yesterday the high was 25°C; now it's 11°. Basically, it's Saturday all over again without the rain. Which actually makes it not a bad day for planting--except I have a friend's party tonight so I did all my planting yesterday when it was hot and humid (>70% relative humidity).
I realised I was fretting too much about placement in the hellstrip. There's just so damn much open space there, it hardly matters where I put stuff, it's not going to be smothering something else anytime soon. I'm a bit worried that the Aralia cordata is too vulnerable to pooch pee, but it's either that or plant it deep in shade where it might struggle and lose its stylish lime-green colour. Moreover, it's not like I can't move it later if that becomes a problem.
Of course, what I want to do is put everything where I can see it and say screw the other building whose residents do fuck-all when it comes to landscaping. But I can't really get away with that if I'm going to turn in my receipts for reimbursement. So now they've got not only the aralia but also a columbine, a coneflower, an epimedium, and whatever that forb is that the taller of the two neighbours gave me. I wish them all good luck.
We're trying beebalm again in front. I put it in the most well-ventilated spot I could to help ward off powdery mildew. I keep hearing that one of the owner has thousands of echinacea seeds he wants to sow in the corner spot once we turn the soil, but he hasn't come through on a date for that yet and I'm not fool enough to do it on my own. Not when I'm already fool enough to want to rebuild the rest of that shambolic excuse for a retaining wall and create some beds to protect the smaller plants.
I realised I was fretting too much about placement in the hellstrip. There's just so damn much open space there, it hardly matters where I put stuff, it's not going to be smothering something else anytime soon. I'm a bit worried that the Aralia cordata is too vulnerable to pooch pee, but it's either that or plant it deep in shade where it might struggle and lose its stylish lime-green colour. Moreover, it's not like I can't move it later if that becomes a problem.
Of course, what I want to do is put everything where I can see it and say screw the other building whose residents do fuck-all when it comes to landscaping. But I can't really get away with that if I'm going to turn in my receipts for reimbursement. So now they've got not only the aralia but also a columbine, a coneflower, an epimedium, and whatever that forb is that the taller of the two neighbours gave me. I wish them all good luck.
We're trying beebalm again in front. I put it in the most well-ventilated spot I could to help ward off powdery mildew. I keep hearing that one of the owner has thousands of echinacea seeds he wants to sow in the corner spot once we turn the soil, but he hasn't come through on a date for that yet and I'm not fool enough to do it on my own. Not when I'm already fool enough to want to rebuild the rest of that shambolic excuse for a retaining wall and create some beds to protect the smaller plants.