Easy Roses

Here’s a post I wrote last year for another garden blog (which has since gone dormant), detailing what I’d accomplished as of May 27, 2007:

started seeds of

• Salvia coccinea ‘Lady in Red’ and ‘Coral Nymph’
• some sort of hollyhock mix
• various columbine mixes
  

planted seeds of

• moonvine
• lablab
• cardinal climber
• cosmos Vega series
• Coreopsis ‘Early Sunrise’
  
  

potted

• two Mandevilla ‘Janel’ and a whole bunch of coleus that need bigger pots
  
  

planted in the new cottage garden

• moonvines and cardinal climber to grow on separate bamboo tepees
• hollyhock ‘Peaches and Dreams’
• Acanthus mollis latifolia
• ladies’ mantle
• Anemone x hybrida ‘Andrea Atkinson’
• Asclepias tuberosa
• false indigo
• Caryopteris divaricata ‘Snow Fairy’
• Coreopsis verticillata ‘Moonbeam’
• Dicentra spectabilis ‘Alba’
• Dryopteris erythrosora ‘Brilliance’
• Heuchera ‘Obsidian’ and two other Heucheras with purple and silver foliage
• Lobelia cardinalis
• Lobelia siphilitica ‘Great Blue’
• Monarda ‘Jacob Cline’
• Nepeta ‘Walker’s Low’
• Penstemmon ‘Husker Red’
• Phlox paniculata ‘David’
• Veronica ‘Sunny Border Blue’
• roses ‘Blanc Double de Coubert’, ‘Buff Beauty’, ‘Gruss an Aachen’, and ‘Scarlet Flower Carpet’ (Roses growing on in pots are ‘Felicite Parmentier’, another ‘Gruss an Aachen’, ‘Mme. Hardy’, ‘Perle d’Or’, and ‘Souvenir de Philemon Cochet’; still more roses are on order)
• shrubs ‘Snowflake’ oakleaf hydrangea, Cayuga viburnum, and Itea virginica
• vines Clematis ‘Niobe’ and Lonicera x heckrottii ‘Goldflame’
• bulbs Calladium ‘Miss Muffet’, Canna ‘Bengal Tiger’, Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’, Golden Splendor trumpet lily, Regal trumpet lily
  
  

It’s no wonder my back hurts! But in a year or two, it should be quite a spectacle, with color effects I’d never thought of and also some I wish I’d prevented. That’s what shovels are for, I suppose.