They're getting moved

16 years ago

All of my plants, daylilies, hostas and various perennials around the garage, all have to be moved in the next three weeks. Why? Because the garage is getting torn down, and a new one put up. So much work, and it makes me sad, thinking all the time and money I spent designing, building, planting and nurturing these beds in the past three years will have to be undone in three weeks. The daylilies are getting new beds in sunnier places, which is good for them, but will be exposed to flooding, which worries me. Near the garage I didn't have to worry much, but being out in the yard more, the chance of being underwater in the spring is greater. Our property sits lower than the surrounding neighbors, and all their runoff goes into our yard. The hostas I'm concerned with, the small ones will get potted up, but the big ones will have to live in plastic bags until I can replant them, and I hope they'll survive. The perennials I'm the most sad about, because they were finally looking so nice and full...now they have to be removed. I can save some, but most I'll have to give away, if I can find someone to take them. Sigh. After it is finished, sometime in October, I'll at least have more space to grow more hostas and shady perennials. But I will miss the layout of my Dracula bed, which will no longer exist. It was such a nice design, and got many compliments on it. Now it'll be plain square beds, which the boyfriend likes better. Double sigh.

Karen

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newyorkrita
16 years ago
Oh geez. All your hard work starting your new gardens. What a bummer. I can't imagine what your going to have to deal with. Whatever you do create, I am sure i will be beautiful in the long run. But sorry you have to move your garden.
njmomma
16 years ago
ALL MINE have to be moved too because we're raising the area up since it's sunken. A LOT of work!
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numama
16 years ago
OUCH! That is a real bummer Karen! My land is rock and clay, very hard to work with and what I do have planted here took much preparation. My sister told me I could use her land next door since it was PRIME dirt so I planted about 450 of my cultivars over there only to find out the next year they are selling the property. I'm having to get them moved back to my land now and it has been TONS of hard work to get them moved. I haven't even started with the seedling bed which has 300+ so I'm definitely feeling your pain, at least I don't have a deadline....LOL.
I'm sure once you redo your gardens they will be beautiful!
Nancy
tepelus
Original Author
16 years ago
Thanks everybody! Wow, Nancy, you definitely have more to move than me! I have about, oh, 70 daylilies, and a couple dozen hostas, and some of my perennials are going to my boyfriend's brother, he's going to till up a temporary bed to put them in until his house is done being remodeled. I have half of the daylilies moved already, the bed the others are going into has been tilled, so I have to rake it and fix the edge lines tonight, and plant Friday, or tomorrow if I'm not too tired from work. I have two weeks to get this all done. The daylilies are about half the battle. But I think they'll like their new homes better. More light and less competition from tree roots. NJmomma, I wish you the best of luck in raising your garden, that's just as bad as having to move everything! And I wish you luck too, Nancy, in getting all of yours moved, again!

Karen
tepelus
Original Author
16 years ago
Got all of my daylilies moved yesterday, and half of the hostas are in a temporary bed to hold them through the winter, mostly the smaller ones. Sometime this weekend I have to get the big ones dug up and put into bags, I don't have pots big enough for them, before Monday because the tree guys will be here to cut down the trees. Hopefully I get out of work fairly early today, and have enough energy to do this, since the weekend is always busy and we get out late both days. Then I just have a few perennials in those beds to pop out before I tackle the big perennial bed sometime this coming week. I left enough room for my new daylilies coming in September in the widened out tree stump bed, or at least I hope I did! I wish they would be here now, so I know how much room I have left to plop in a few of my other perennials instead of potting them all, but I guess they'll have to wait. So much work, so little time. And, the boyfriend has to move out the rocks I used for my Dracula bed, I have a new plan for them, and I want to keep them since I spent a lot of money on them. Don't want them getting bulldozed!

Karen