Well, I guess you could say that I’m not exactly posting regularly here about the events or lack “of” as to what’s going on in my garden. Most of the summer was rather quiet and it’s then that a native plant garden goes into a kind of slumber as it coasts through the long hot days of the season.
I had been trying to decide what I would do about the Canyon Prince Rye Grass, as I commented in my last post and I finally dug up (lets see here, hummm) four of them but I still have three to be removed.
Obviously, there were too many put into the garden three years ago and what I didn’t know at the time, was how large they would become and that they obviously loved the conditions in the garden and thrived.
It took some digging to get out the ones I did remove and I am noticing some shoots coming up here and there where they previously were and that could be a future problem. This means I will have to pay constant attention and make sure that they don’t get a “root hold” again…..
In their place I have planted some Purple Three Awn native bunch grass and several Yarrows. My color palate is grayish-blue and yellow. Mixed in with this are the amazing Woolly Blue Curls that continue to amaze me in their resilience and look healthy and are still blooming.
This weekend I plan to remove the rest of the Canyon Prince and also remove two Salvia mellifera and attempt to relocate them to my backyard. I don’t know how successful this will be, but I want to keep them and I have more space in the backyard for them to spread out.
The garden evolves as we all do, circumstances change and nature’s moods and music continue to delight, regardless of what is happening in the world.
Peace!
