Garden Detective

Today's the day!

I've planned, sketched, graphed to scale, erased, crossed out and ripped up. Many times. And finally I think I've got it right.

Today, the landscaping crew comes to do all the heavy lifting: Digging out beds, ammending the soil and planting 52 plants and shrubs that are sitting in pots in my backyard, which was all but destroyed last summer when two new cesspools went in.

I've got black eyed Susans, blue fescue, salvia, echinaceas, a Montgommery spruce, Limemound Spirea, clematis 'Madame Julia' (purchased because it was beautiful and also because it shares a name with my younger daughter), hosta 'guacomole', ostrich fern, Ligularia, northern sea oates, maiden grass, 13 red single Knockout roses (they're not really red; more bright hot pink), and Hameln grass. Excuse the mish-mash of common and botanical names; I'm in a hurry and typing whatever first comes to mind.

I'm off to take 'before' pictures. I only hope the crew shows up.