Space

Space is something I have very little of in the townhouse gardens. It is rare I can add a new plant without it looking crowded. I love the look of daylilies tucked in between hostas, or is it hostas tucked in between daylilies?

However, I made a tough decision this last week. Daylilies gotta go. I know – what? Here’s the deal. The new landscape maintenance team at the townhouse is awesome at blowing cut grass and fallen leaves out of the rock. Really awesome. Really really awesome. The gardens all have rock. There is a lot of collateral damage lately. Mostly to the daylilies. Why have daylilies when they don’t survive for their day? So I made a decision. A lot need to go. Up north. This fall.

What holds up way better against the blowers? Small to medium hostas. I have plenty of those, too. Maybe I should divide a medium-sized hosta and put it in this space.

What’s going – #3

I have 8 Blue Mouse Ears hostas. You might say I am a bit fond of them. They are, well, blue. One of my favorite types of hostas. And they have lavender flowers. And they are disease resistant. And not once has a mammal eaten even one leaf. The leaves are tough.

They have been in my garden for a long time, and they need dividing. So 3-5 will go up north.

I want to put them along the sidewalk to the back yard, but that area needs love as well, so for now they will go along the gutter extensions of the new gutters we needed to put in this past spring. Hint, there were no gutter extensions on the old gutters. Bonus, I don’t think the deer like the new gutter extensions. Hoping to keep it that way.

A year to transplant

I started the gardens at our townhome 17 years ago. They really transformed 8-9 years ago when I expanded the space, and expanded again. Back then, the gardens were maintained by the homeowners, and maintain them we did – my husband and I – outside our place. I went through a massive hosta phase. Lots of varieties. Then I started in with daylilies, and got hooked.

The hostas in the gardens here are starting to show their age. I have divided some and given them to neighbors. This year I need to divide my favorites – 9 ‘Blue Mouse Ears’ hostas. They are getting fairy rings.

More decisions – where do the divisions go? Onto new areas here? To other gardens in our association? Up north? All of the above, I suspect. But for now they sit undisturbed until after bloom, which is highly anticipated, at least by me, every July.

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