This isn't a real rock garden report, but I have to show you one picture. I like how it looks when the ground is damp. I had just watered, and it makes the colors of the plants really stand out. This looks so much nicer than even a year ago!
I went to three nurseries in Holland over the weekend and bought 3 new plants. I'll show you the two sedums today. This is one of the Sunsparkler ones. It wasn't on my priority list to get, but it's hard to find the ones I don't have, so I bought it. This is called 'Jade Tuffet.'
The leaves are bright green in spring, but then they turn dark red in summer. The flowers are bright dusty pink in fall. I'm always looking for more dark-leaved plants. And the 'Sunsparkler' sedums are all great, so I'm glad I got it.
This one won't look like much until next year. It was broken, so it was on a markdown table. This is one of the tall sedums, now moved to Hylotelephium, called 'Night Embers.' The leaves are very dark. It will get tall and also have pink-purple flowers. It will make a great contrast with my other tall sedums which are all light green. I used to have another dark one, but it died out.
Today was productive. I made yogurt, edited, worked in the garden just a tiny bit before it got hot, worked on my sorting/cleaning project, and will do some more computer stuff yet this evening.
I bought some stuff- a granular powder that is supposed to repel the rodents without killing them. Hoping it will keep the chippies out of the gardens.
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Java Bean: "Ayyy, you would think a couple of dogs would repel rodents from the yard, but not so much. Of course that's just as well because then we would have nothing to dig after, sí?"
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