Gardening is about experimentation -- I'm learning. You plan, you organize, you research. Finally -- you order.
At the front of my perennial garden I was looking for a low growing, easy care plant that bloomed in spring in blue and white. Campanula carpatica seemed to fit the bill nicely. The looked great in the catalog too -- short mounds covered in flowers.
So in they went.
They grew quickly and boldly and bloomed early. The shape of the plant was just what the catalog promised. But the flowers, well, were microscopic. Literally. Maybe they were blue, maybe white, I'm not sure. I never bothered to bring out my magnifying glass.
Uncertain, I decided to let them continue -- maybe this wasn't the bloom at all. They rewarded me with a huge shower of seeds fanning out in a perfect wind-blown arc. Now I have lots of little harebells coming up everywhere they could take root.
They're not too much of a bother to rip out, so I've been pulling out all the babies (I'm sure there are more waiting to spring up!) and they were followed into the recycling bin by their parents.
In went three white and one blue Nemesias. In bloom, not exactly short, but a fine front-of-the-bed perennial.
Plan, organize, research, order, plant. Mulch.
Posted by rich at June 23, 2003 9:15 PM