Last year I had dreams of a beautiful bed of sun loving perennials. Visions of cut flowers were dancing in my head. I decided to go with a color scheme of yellow and pink and worked everything I wanted to plant. Then I started up adding up the numbers realized how expensive plants are. Ouch. To help ease the budget, we ordered from Bluestone Perennials and got tons of plants in lots a great varieties for not much money. Last year they were a bit small when we planted them-
Yeah pretty puny. I was a little worried. OK I was a lot worried.
But this year it has turned into this-
Still have a little growing to do, but I am amazed what a difference a year makes. We lost a couple of plants to dogs and rabbits but that was an excuse to feed my plant buying habit for some fill ins. So if you have a little patience, you should definitely give plant mail-order companies a try.
That and because they send you magazines in the dead of winter for spring ordering. It’s like plant porn.
Gorgeous! B tells me plants take 3 years to reach their full potential - sleep, creep, leap. It's year 3 and ours look worse , so I'm obviously doing something wrong.
ReplyDeleteWow...I am so impressed and inspired. You should share with us what kind of plants they are (for those of us who don't know a lot about plants). I have alot of areas I would like to put in flower beds, but just haven't had the $$$ to do so. I think I can now :)
ReplyDeleteThat looks great! I just got done redoing our gardens and the plants look a little punny. I'm just hoping that they work as well as yours did next year.
ReplyDeleteWhat a difference! I'm hoping some of our gardens will change like that. My neighbors bought a few small perenials last year and the white daisies really took off this year. So much so, that I wish I had done the same. But I've changed my mind and I have to buy a couple truck loads of dirt before buying more plants (to help fill in where we put foundation stones). Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHoly moly! I love perennials. I'm with Emily about the 3-year plan - I've heard that the first year they sleep, then they creep, then they leap. =) Yours are already leaping. I'm jealous.
ReplyDeletethat happened in one year?!? I think the miracle gro worked quite well!
ReplyDeleteI'm always stunned by how fast things grow. I'm scared to cut my Annabelle hydrangeas down to 9 inches like they say you should, thinking they will stay small...but I know that isn't the case. It looks so great!
ReplyDeletegorgeous!!! I just signed up!! :) thanks for sharing!!
ReplyDeleteWow, what a difference a year can make! Everything looks so pretty.
ReplyDeletewow! Your patience definitely paid off! Everything looks terrific!
ReplyDelete"It's like plant porn."
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Such an amazing transformation. Plant porn - I love it!!
ReplyDeleteThat's looks really nice. Hard to believe that was only a year!
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