It"s also the best time to find bargains on plant material. I had been resisting buying any more plants, since we will be moving all our stuff 800 miles, but just couldn't stop myself. We had another trip planned to So. IL. the end of October. With Hurricane Sandy on it's way, we got out of Dodge. We took both my truck and Jan's car. A week later, she drove on to spend a couple weeks with her daughters and new twin Grand-babies in Minnesota.
A few days before we left, I saw that the Leesburg Home Depot was closing out all their nursery stock cheap. I couldn't resist. I bought a bunch of azaleas and rhododendrons. I also started digging and dividing the perennials that we have collected or moved from our last place in Georgia. Pots filled the floor of Jan's back seat and the entire back seat and floor of my truck. We usually leave Mr. Q (my parakeet) with our landlord, Walter, but since we planned to be gone for about a month and were quite sure his power would be off for an indeterminate time (remember Sandy was on her way), he rode with me. He actually seemed to enjoy the ride.
We planted the first load of perennials, day lilies, bee balm, cone flowers, daisies, along the new board fence. And 5 burning bushes went in the ground by the gate and at the end of the shed. Earlier, I planted 3 bargain trees from the Carbondale Lowes (pink dogwood, coosa dogwood, redbud) along the inside of the fence.
Actually, before we planted anything, we built the three board "Virginia" fence and hung the gates. The space between the gates, at the end of the "island" (right behind Jan in the photo above) will be a horse jump/sign. I have my eye on a large cedar tree near by for this. Hopefully next trip. Next year, with the fence painted black, the jump built, and all the plants growing, it will look amazing.
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