Spring Nandina do over

Struggles with a new laptop have made blogging too much work. If I didn't have something to keep for the future, I think I would just post pictures like a photo album and not fight with it.

This old bed has been a mess for many years.  Just living with it has become a constant fight with leaves and dirt.  Thus, time for a change.

The brick is the fireplace to the right of the patio.  There is a little corner between brick and door that collects whirlwinds of dead leaves and detritus that gets dragged into the house on shoes or vacuum when the storm door is opened.

this is the largest clump of roots

Hubby did pitch in and chop the roots loose for me as I was on my hands and knees scraping dirt from roots, clipping same and ending up with very sore hands.

At the end of a productive, chilly, windy day.

A lot of clean up on the other side of the flag stone path, but not thinking
 about that right now.

The bed is not that large and plan to lay under- layment and mulch and then place pots.
It will be much easier to deal with pots and not the messy root/sprouts from nandinas that were a constant battle to control.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.Apr 23, 2014

My newest addition/sans the thingie on the top/is a metal bird bath from a local flea market.

It needs cleaning and repainting and, oh yeah, filling holes in the bottom with silicone.  Didn't notice until I got home.

Transplanted Butterfly Bush/Update

MY BAD!  HUMMINGBIRD BUSH, NOT BUDDLEIA!!

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As of today, April 29, the transplant went through stages of wilting, perking, big wilt, now healthy.
I am sure it was just shock of the move.  Hope it will survive the hot days ahead.

Transplanting this time of year is iffy.  I have transplanted in the past with poor to fantastic results.
This year things are looking good.

That said, I have nurtured one of many, many seedlings of the butterfly bush that came up in the "wrong" place 2 years ago.  I let it go and it is now a nice small bush.  Unfortunately, sends out many, many seeds....

I have tended one seedling, thinking that it was three close together.   Yesterday, the weather was cool and overcast and damp. Perfect for transplanting. I attempted to dig out the plants(s) only to find it was one plant.  By the time i got to that point, the roots were exposed.  Three perfect roots.  I quickly moved to a perfect spot and did my best to arrange the bare roots just so.  Got it settled in and watered and went inside.  Lo and behold, the sun came out.  Not good.  Too stressful for transplanting. It didn't look so good last evening.

This morning, the plant was perky.   Then the sun came out again...  I got a picture of perky.
Now to wait and see if it takes hold.