Comments on: The big dig http://blog.blithewold.org/perennials/the-big-dig/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Sun, 19 May 2013 12:25:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Layanee http://blog.blithewold.org/perennials/the-big-dig/comment-page-1/#comment-13119 Layanee Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:50:27 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=5739#comment-13119 The fall is so much nicer without the pressures of spring chores. How exciting that you will have a new wall. Is there a new edging in store for the north garden as per HD? Just wondering if her suggestions were heard by the landscape crew. <em>Layanee, Good question! We've got a committee meeting coming up so I guess we'll see soon what suggestions - and whose - are still open for discussion. -kris</em> The fall is so much nicer without the pressures of spring chores. How exciting that you will have a new wall. Is there a new edging in store for the north garden as per HD? Just wondering if her suggestions were heard by the landscape crew.

Layanee, Good question! We’ve got a committee meeting coming up so I guess we’ll see soon what suggestions – and whose – are still open for discussion. -kris

]]> By: Carolyn http://blog.blithewold.org/perennials/the-big-dig/comment-page-1/#comment-13079 Carolyn Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:53:53 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=5739#comment-13079 I like to do as much as I can in the fall as spring can be so unreliable early on. I went on a buying spree in late Sept. and got some fabulous deals on perennials(half price!). I'm going to be checking out the shrubs and trees over the next week. I'll be planting(and mulching) for the next two-three weeks. Great time to be outside! <em>Carolyn, You're right - it feels really good again (aside from all this rain) to be outside! Good luck finding good deals! -kris</em> I like to do as much as I can in the fall as spring can be so unreliable early on. I went on a buying spree in late Sept. and got some fabulous deals on perennials(half price!). I’m going to be checking out the shrubs and trees over the next week. I’ll be planting(and mulching) for the next two-three weeks. Great time to be outside!

Carolyn, You’re right – it feels really good again (aside from all this rain) to be outside! Good luck finding good deals! -kris

]]> By: Marianne http://blog.blithewold.org/perennials/the-big-dig/comment-page-1/#comment-13072 Marianne Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:15:42 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=5739#comment-13072 Hi Kris, Glad to hear about the progress, you reassure me it is not to late to move plants. I enlarged a shrub border a few years ago and ...guess what it needs??? Yup, enlarging again! I had this question what time is better fall or spring and like you, I do not want to damage new spring growth so here I go in the next week or so! <em>Marianne, It's a fine time to move things around - particularly things that bloom early on in the season. They should have a good few weeks - and then all winter - to settle in. Happy planting! -kris</em> Hi Kris, Glad to hear about the progress, you reassure me it is not to late to move plants. I enlarged a shrub border a few years ago and …guess what it needs??? Yup, enlarging again! I had this question what time is better fall or spring and like you, I do not want to damage new spring growth so here I go in the next week or so!

Marianne, It’s a fine time to move things around – particularly things that bloom early on in the season. They should have a good few weeks – and then all winter – to settle in. Happy planting! -kris

]]> By: Susan Sims http://blog.blithewold.org/perennials/the-big-dig/comment-page-1/#comment-13067 Susan Sims Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:14:49 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=5739#comment-13067 I presume the wall is under the ivy. What needs restoring about it? Is it crumbly? I'm doing a lot of work this fall, including some cutting back I would normally reserve for the spring and such for the much lauded seed heads and winter interest as this upcoming spring won't be allowing me any time to do it then. Which, considering how much weeding of grass in the beds will be done is probably a good thing. <em>Susan, you presume correctly - the wall is under the climbing hydrangea actually and it has become a bit precariously leany over the years... Now you've got me curious - what's upcoming for you this spring???! (Dare I guess there might be a new branchlet on your family tree?) -kris</em> I presume the wall is under the ivy. What needs restoring about it? Is it crumbly?

I’m doing a lot of work this fall, including some cutting back I would normally reserve for the spring and such for the much lauded seed heads and winter interest as this upcoming spring won’t be allowing me any time to do it then. Which, considering how much weeding of grass in the beds will be done is probably a good thing.

Susan, you presume correctly – the wall is under the climbing hydrangea actually and it has become a bit precariously leany over the years… Now you’ve got me curious – what’s upcoming for you this spring???! (Dare I guess there might be a new branchlet on your family tree?) -kris

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