2018

Garden Projects

• Build deck
• Build privacy fence
• Put in garden beds
• Build playhouse
• Build pergola
• Build arbor
• Build raised planters
• Build large planters for deck
• Build planters around pergola posts
• Build potting table for deck
• Build rabbit hutch - July/August
• Build small tool shed - July/August
• Build large woodshop/garden shed
• Build greenhouse
• Build the back fence with arbor gate
• Put in a pool

Plants to Buy:

• Blue Rose of Sharron (2)
• To complement the other two; statement shrubs
• Chelone (Pink Turtlehead) (2)
• To fill in large gaps
• 'New Dawn' Roses (4)
• To climb up the arbor
• English Ivy (14)
• To cover the pergola in evergreen leaves
• Shade Trees (2)
• To create some shade in the garden
• Blue Astilbe
• To compliment the pink and white

Division:

• Hostas (as many as you can)
• Because you can't have enough of these versatile plants
• Miscanthus (5)
• Three in the backyard, two in the Southside yard.
• Heuchera
• Divide the chartreuse and burgundy heuchera annually.  These will alternate in the front of the Southside yard, as well as the backyard.  

Cuttings:

• Taxus (50)
• To line the Southside property line
• Smoke Bush (6)
• To see if you can do it, and if successful, will find places to plant
• Knockout Roses (8)
• To fill in and complement the backyard open spaces
• Blue Clematis (4)
• To climb up the arbor and compliment the roses
• Fire Bush (12)
• To line the Northside property line

Collect Seed and Propagate:

• Echinacea
• As much as you can.  These turned into fabulous plants in mass
• Scabiosa
• Ever-blooming blue; can never have enough
• Forget me nots
• Was not successful last year propagating by seed; will need to try again
• Had very good germination rates, but they never took off.  Will need to baby the seedlings
• Anchusa (Dropmore)
• Large form-factor blue plants
• Plants grow 4-5 ft. tall 
• Nepeta nervosa (Blue Catmint - perennial)
• Because it's blue!
• Prefers afternoon shade
• Phlox Paniculata
• Long flowering, large plant
• For best results, winter sow in the fall
• Aster
• Because it's blue
• Mugwort?
• Not sure.  Considering.  Think it might look nice in the large bed mixed in with the echinacea and Joe Pye Weed (and need to see how that stuff looks)
• Bachelor Buttons
• These look great in pots
• Nicotiana 
• These look great in pots.  Don't over crowd; it's a large and hungry plant
• Joe Pye Weed
• Depending on how it looks
• Lavender
• Because it's blue
• Balloon Flower
• Need BLUE; I think I killed all the germinated seedlings when I forgot to water
• Leucanthemum
• Need to really start propagating these and mix them into the borders with the echinacea