I understand where you are coming from. I still have a few to plant, but since I worked last night and will do so tonight, and it rained again today, I probably won't be planting until Monday or Tuesday.

You've done a tremendous amount of work on your "kingdom" and maybe can enjoy it next year. We are all looking forward to your pictures, that is for sure.
kay

I did manage to get some new space by digging out and chucking a medium sized useless shrub, then digging out and moving over a big vineing honeysuckle.

Honeysuckle vine relocated into new trellis at the back of the picture.

Its in the garden that runs all along the side of my driveway. This area would be near the top, near the garage. Its in back of the row of FANCY FACE daylilies.

I plan to move bulb lilies to make the very back row of garden as they would be tall. In fact those RED ALERT lilies are going to move back way toward the fenceline from were they are now just in back of the daylilies.

I still have one pot to take care of: Sedum "Autumn Joy". I gota BIG pot on sale so I couldn't resist.

Edward

Rita - Five does not a pot ghetto make. Try 100. That's how many I had in pots last year. I'm down to just 57. I had hoped to get lots of them planted this month. But it's been raining nonstop for almost three weeks. My clay soil is waterlogged. I don't know how long it will take to dry out. If I can't get them planted by the first week in October, I keep them in the pots for another winter.

I' glad you found some more room you could use! If my neighbor follows through with plans to take down his walnut tree, I'll have more sunny space where I can plant next spring.

Debra

Edward- I love the tall sedums and have many plants of both Autumn Joy and Brilliant Sedum in my garden for many years. Last Spring I also added lots of Matrona plus another more reddish one who's name I can not remember.

Debra- I am not much into keeping things in pots. The only times I have lots of potted plants around is after I have bought lots of things to add to the garden and before I have had a chance to plant them. Had lots of roses in my pot ghetto this year, about 30 of them.

I would go nuts of I had 100 plants in a pot ghetto, can't handle that many. I hope things dry out for you soon so that you can get them planted. You made some really nice new daylily beds this year and I am looking forward to seeing pictures of them all blooming next year.

I am glad you have everything planted Rita.

We are waterlogged here too and I have a huge pot ghetto, daylilies and other plants, probably 20 shrubs and small trees to go in the ground, but too wet. I am hoping they don't have to spend the winter in the pots but they may have too. Way too wet to get soil hauled in, the truck would sink.

Sharon

Sharon-

On no, I have a picture in my mind of this big truck up to its axils in mud with the wheels just spinning. I hope that doesn't turn out to be the case.

I do have those two roses still in pots to be planted but thats hardly anything at all :-)) Plus I have to get started on my approxamately 200 daffodil bulbs that I bought a month ago and haven't gotten it starting to plant. Then there are more iris to move yet and more lilies from the bulb lilies to move yet. I started already on moving both the iris and lilies but still more to do.

Was out walking the garden after the rain stopped today and everything is looking good. The daylilies are really greening up and sending out new fans. Both the ones I transplanted and the ones that were not moved that I gave a good dose of Neptunes Liquid Seaweed Fetilizer too after blooming.

I am please with the redos, I think its going to look very good next year. Am especially very pleased with those daylilies in the steep driveway slope, I think that was one of my better ideas. Even if it was difficult to get them planted. I am also glad I relocated those large roses, they look great in their new locations and the daylily section in started in the empty space they came out of is coming along well and should look good next year. My side of the house redone rose garden turned out really well, I might not even have to do any more there but just wait for the little roses to grow.

I also like the regrouping of the daylilies in the terraces garden and the fact that I decided to make tower square a combo very late daylily garden with iris. The redone plateau, I think is better than the first time around.

I am dissapointed that I don't have at least an empty row in the plateau for new purchases. When I planned all this moving around, I really thought that I would have a row or more leftover for new stuff.

No Rita, no truck up to it's axils yet. I still have a little time, I can plant till the end of October. If the rain stops and it dries up a little I can get it done. At least the shrubs and small trees. The daylilies are in very large pots with lots of room and will be ok till spring if it stays too wet.

Your gardens will be so stunning next year. Sorry you didn't get your leftover space in the plateau, but it will be lovely anyway. You have really worked hard this summer to get everything done. Maybe you can relax some next summer and enjoy it all.

Sharon

I would say that not having much room left would force me to take time off and relax instead of working all summer on garden projects. Honestly, if I had nothing to do in the garden but normal garden matenience like weeding, mulching and watering, I would have a really easy time of it. I really, really, do want to take the summer off and just enjoy whats here for a change. We will see if I manage or if I go off on some project or another again.

My plan for the daylilies is to buy very few for spring and then carefully watch and evalute those here during bloom season. I still have some dogs of low budcounts here but think I have at least gotten rid of the non openers. Then there are some that are fine, grow and flower well but I just don't much care for. Fortunately not many of those. But I think I will see what I think after carefully watching next bloom season and move out the last of the extemewly low budcounts and those few that I really did not care for. I hate to be too hasty as a daylily can really imprive lots given some time.

The real flaw in my plan is the not buy much part. I love to buy new daylilies :-))

I did some mulching today but mostly my big garden job was moving bulb lillies. I put them along the fence way in the back of that new garden area. Since the lily folliage has not even died back on these mostly trumpet hybreds yet, it was really easy to find all the bulbs and lift everyuthing in one clump and then replant. So far seven clumps going aloong the fenceline there in back.

Then I will put a row of relocated RED ALERT lilies immediately in front of the ones I just moved.

The front part of that garden is two rows of daylilies and I will have room for another row of daylilies between the rows I have and the newly moved lilies.