My flowers are coming back to me

 

I was blessed to be able to take out some of my plants from my former garden, (see "Another treat" for the story) and now I have the pleasant task of deciding what to do with them.  Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of spending a winter dreaming of where they will go.  They are sitting along the edge of my front garden plot shivering in the chilly Canadian climate.

 

 I have a lot of the ground-covers that I  love, and I will be able to get more in spring.

The yellow day lilies will fit in well,

and so will all the irises.

But how do I make all those decisions in just a few short hours!

Empty Canvas

There's been very little time for landscape gardening this year, and my canvas was still under construction, but now we are almost at the stage where I can start thinking about trees and shrubs and perennials again.

I hope to draw from my daughters' gardens, just as they drew from mine when they started theirs.

I also brought a few divisions of my favorites from my last garden and stuck them in a row in my vegetable garden.

I also plan on using some of the shrubs and trees that are growing wild throughout the property.

The fun will be planning.  But oh what a lot of work to put it all together!