A promise yet to be fulfilled [03/26]

I’m Nathan Langley and this is ‘A promise yet to be fulfilled’, a seasonal weekly newsletter on my trial garden developments at home in Sudbury, Ontario!

I haven’t made as much progress with my gardens in July as I would have liked. With the delayed growing season this year, a lot of the expected June work ended up in July. No matter.

I did manage to complete one task: digging out the perennial grass and horsetail in my library garden. I have planted all the empty space, which means the library now consists of the following:

Achillea millefolium ‘Moonshine’ (‘Moonshine’ Yarrow)
Achillea millefolium ‘New Vintage Red’ (‘New Vintage Red’ Yarrow)
Achillea millefolium ‘New Vintage Terracotta’ (‘New Vintage Terracotta’ Yarrow)
Amsonia hubrichtii (Arkansas Blue Star)
Aruncus aethusifolius (Dwarf Goat’s Beard)
Baptisia x ‘Burgundy Blast’ (‘Burgundy Blast’ False Indigo)
Calamagrostis brachytricha (Autumn Feather Reed Grass)
Echinacea ‘Kismet Red’ (‘Kismet Red’ Coneflower)
Echinops bannaticus ‘ Blue Glow’ (‘Blue Glow’ Globe Thistle)
Epimedium rubrum (Red Barronwort)
Eryngium yuccifolium (Rattlesnake Master)
Helenium ‘Mariachi Bandera’ (‘Mariachi Bandera’ Sneezeweed)
Helenium ‘Mariachi Salsa’ (‘Mariachi Salsa’ Sneezeweed)
Heuchera x ‘Cherry Cola’ (‘Cherry Cola’ Coral Bells)
Heuchera x ‘Obsidian’ (‘Obsidian’ Coral Bells)
Nepeta faassenii ‘Cat’s Meow’ ('Cat's Meow' Catmint)
Nepeta faassenii ‘Whispurr Pink’ (‘Whispurr Pink’ Catmint)
Panicum virgatum ’Shenandoah’ (Shenandoah' Switch Grass)
Papaver orientale ‘Princess Victoria Louise’ ('Princess Victoria Louise' Poppy)
Papaver orientale ‘Royal Wedding’ ('Royal Wedding' Poppy)
Penstemon digitalis ‘Blackbeard’ ('Blackbeard' Beardtongue)
Penstemon digitalis ‘Onyx and Pearls’ ('Onyx and Pearls' Beardtongue)
Perovskia atriplicifolia (Russian Sage)
Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Firetail’ ('Firetail' Fleece Flower)
Persicaria bistorta ‘Superba’ ('Superba' Fleece Flower)
Salvia nemorosa ‘Bumbleberry’ (‘Bumbleberry’ Meadow Sage)
Salvia nemorosa‘Blue Hill’ ('Blue Hill' Meadow Sage)
Sanguisorba obtusa (Burnet)
Symphyotrichum cordifolium (Heart-leaved Aster)
Symphyotrichum ericoides (Heath Aster)
Verbena stricta (Hoary Vervain)

With the old veggie garden turned over, I will be looking to extend the library garden out by another meter. I have a few more full sun perennials I would like to add this year, and I need to move a few that I have already planted into better positions (I was impatient with my progress…).

I am hopeful that removing the turf won’t take too long, since the ground is on the softer side after the rain we received this past week.