Had a great weekend in the garden and made some serious progress in the potting department. Tackled the perennials along our brick footpath…solomon seal, daylily, allium and calla lily all dead-headed, divided and some potted to share. Keeping my fingers crossed that the potted calla’s make it through the winter as they are always hit-or-miss.
Next up was the south side shrub border. So cool to be working in that garden and hear the quaking aspen leaves rustling above me! Anyone else have trouble with their tall sedum this year? Mine completely flopped over and are laying on the ground…disappointing. I’m taking that as a sign that they need to be divided so I lifted/divided the white ones, cut a huge bouquet of the pink ones to enjoy inside; they will be cut back and divided in the coming weeks. Thinned and potted pulmonaria (boy/girl plant) and hellebore seedlings too. This is a great time to divide and re-distribute lewesia. It’s fairly easy to lift a clump, tease apart the rosettes and spread them out a bit.
West Point tulip bulb order came in last week so I sprinkled a few more of those spring stunners around the yard. Included in that order were the Oriental lilies we’ll be selling in the spring…there will be a lovely selection of FRAGRANT pink and white lilies available like the ones shown above.
I’m notorious for leaving large debris piles around the garden as I deadhead, weed, prune; really hoping that someone in my family will swoop through and deliver them to the compost pile. Wondering how others with larger gardens handle their debris. We use a combination of: 2 large compost bins, a rolling cart that gets hauled away by Nooksack Valley Disposal (for weedy/seedy/poky things), several loads of branches hauled to Everson’s free chipping service and a few trailer loads of ‘other stuff’ that gets taken to Green Earth Technology for composting. It’s a lot to get rid of!
There is so much more to do that it can all become overwhelming – I just keep telling myself “one bed at a time”. 
