Free Plants Are Great, Part 2

June 18, 2009 · Filed under design · Tagged hydrangea, lime walk, muscari

It definitely pays to work where you can get free plants. 

 When we bought this house there was practically nothing on the property.  We moved in on a Victoria Day weekend and there was nothing but a lovely, but horribly overgrown bank of white lilac.  But after a few weeks, I noticed the sod being pushed up behind the house. The previous owner had laid sod right over the original plants. They were nothing spectacular, some orange daylilys, purple iris and 2 peonies, but they were the only perennials on the property. Now, I am only telling you this, so you realize just how many plants it will take to fill 3/4 of an acre.  Every time we had moved before, I was always able to dig up some plants and take them with me.  This time, we moved to England, so I had to leave everything behind.

So anytime I can score free plants at work, it doesn’t matter whether or not I like them, or if they are hardy, I take them.

My next addition to my “Lime Walk”, was leftover blue hydrangea from Easter.  Now, I had tested these “florist” hydrangeas before, they had lived (and flowered) the 2 previous winters.  Owen Sound gets a ton of snow in the winter and it sure does make a great blanket.  I planted these in a line behind the muscari.  If they make it great, if they don’t, it fills in the spot until I can afford to replace them.

Look at all the free Hydrangea!

I am sure that I should be planting “Endless Summer”  hydrangea instead of these florist ones, but even if they only keep the weeds away for the time being, it is worth it!

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