{"id":1025,"date":"2014-10-03T08:46:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T15:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogadmin.plantlust.com\/blog\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2024-01-24T11:54:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T19:54:01","slug":"on-garden-design-and-plant-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantlust.com\/blog\/garden-nurseries\/on-garden-design-and-plant-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"On Garden Design and Plant Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really meant to draw up a blueprint for Flamingo Park Gardens, develop a strategy, make a definite plan\u2014on paper. And if wishes were horses\u2026<\/p>\n

I seem to be buying plants, quite a few plants, and working the \u201cplan\u201d outward from there. Oh, I can hear professional garden designers yelling into the universe: NO, don\u2019t go about it that way. But can you blame me, really? A large part of our mission here at plant lust is to support independent nurseries. It’s my job, not to mention, there are Fall Plant SALES. I just got another email from a neighborhood\u00a0favorite,\u00a0Garden Fever<\/a>, a sweet nursery, not too big, but with\u00a0a well-curated selection of plants. Why, it\u2019d be criminal to not to participate. And it’s time for the\u00a0Cistus Nursery<\/a>\u00a0tough love sale. What’s a gardener to do? Shop, that’s what!<\/p>\n

One upside of buying the plants I love, plants that just give me a thrill, is that it make me stretch my musings\u2014all the way, say, around to the front yard. You know, the garden we walk through every time we enter or leave the house. We have mass planted Juniper at front edge–which is going to break the bank to remove–but that\u2019s no reason for doing nothing out there. There still plenty of opportunity to work.<\/p>\n

\"juniper\"<\/p>\n

A brick planter runs box along the north-facing front of the house, right next to\u00a0the front porch. It was full of Petunias when we came, and I\u2019ll give you that they were very adorable. But I\u2019d imagined a more dramatic, if restrained planting, something with splash and movement; maybe a single Carex, or some other yet to-be-determined plant grooviness. But after acquiring several shade-loving favorites, the single genus idea quietly surrendered.<\/p>\n

Here are a few of my finds over the past week–from Xera<\/a> (did I mention they’re having a sale:)<\/p>\n

\"Evergreen<\/a>
Iris japonica<\/a> – Evergreen Iris goodness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"May<\/a>
Podophyllum pleianthum<\/a> aka May Apple<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Disporum<\/a>
Disporum cantoniense ‘Night Heron’\u00a0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We\u2019ve already fired up the gas logs a couple times this week. And as soon as the kitties get over their fascination with the flames, I\u2019m going put down the water squirt bottle, and settle in with my big stack of gardening books.<\/p>\n

\"books<\/a><\/p>\n

Looking forward to going through a full year with this new garden, so I\u2019ll know it a little better. I\u2019m excited at the prospect of enjoying an entire spring\u2014without the prospect of a\u00a0pesky household move thrown in. So onward to the next gardening season\u2014and that big, organized plan. Pretty sure I can do it\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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