I worked in Sommerer Gardens yesterday morning. I had been looking for a purple-leaved shrub for the cutting garden. I needed some stronger elements there, to add height and drama. A Physocarpus opulifolius ‘Summer Wine’ would do the trick. (That’s a ninebark, as Lauren can tell you. And though the tag says ‘Summer Wine’, this variety is often called ‘Seward’. Interesting, eh?) I found one in Lincoln two days ago and got in in the ground yesterday.
I also got a few other items while plant shopping: some herbs for my mom (and some for me), some annuals, and a few Japanese Painted Ferns. I would use the ferns in the garden next to the back door. A plant has been growing there since the previous owner, and though it is beautiful, it’s too big for the space. It makes the back entrance look wild and weedy. I dug that out and took chunks of it to other people in town.
After weeding out many maple seedlings and columbine volunteers, I was tired. I didn’t get the step stones swept. I’ll get my underpaid imaginary manual laborers to do that.
Would you please send the laborers my way when you’re done with them? I have some weeding I’ve been ignoring for two years.
Sorry to disillusion you, but the underpaid imaginary laborers seem to all be wearing orange vests and holding those reversible “STOP – SLOW” signs at road construction sites in my area this week. I’ll see if I can discern when they might be free for some Nebraskan gardening duties…
Meanwhile, was this a “before” or “after” snapshot – and where’s the quarter for size in this picture, guy? Come on! We have standards, you know!
Speaking of which: What’s orange and sleeps six?
I don’t know – what?
Is it a construction truck?
A school bus! You guys took a nap during the conference, didn’t you?
Lauren delights in burning stuff, doesn’t she?
Are there any graves in the Sommerer garden?
Give Brad some time, he’ll put them there…. 😉
He is quite the handy man to have around! Cutting all that green stuff away and putting more green stuff in the ground. It’s like watching Mozart compose music, I say.