One of the things I love about gardening is trading perennials with friends. Recently I had the opportunity to trade some crocuses (which the rabbits and chipmunks are playing havoc with at my house) for some more critter resistant spring-flowering bulbs. My good friend and garden-mentor, Rita, offered me some of her puschkinia, so I thought it would be a good idea to give her some of my crocuses. (Rita has hundreds of crocuses in her garden, and not many bunnies around to bother them.)
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| 'Prince Claus' crocuses, some with the tops eaten off, some with the bulbs taken. |
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| Phooey! |
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| Digging the crocuses up. |
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| Maybe I planted these too deeply? |
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| Ready for the move to Rita's Garden |
So I took the crocuses up to Rita and spent a lovely morning having coffee, talking, and taking a drive to one of our favourite garden centres.
The 'Prince Claus' crocuses are now safely planted in Rita's Garden and I came home with the following beautiful bunch of puschkinia (the light coloured ones), some scilla (the blue ones) and something new-to-me, chionadoxa 'Glory of the Snow' (the pretty mauve ones). All of these are tucked into their new garden at my house now.
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| Thank you, Rita! |
That's one of my favourite things to do too - Rita sounds like a wonderful garden friend. I'd love to share some things with you too if you lived a little closer.
ReplyDeleteHow fun to share plants - I have several in my garden that remind me of the friends that they came from. Makes them very special!
ReplyDeleteIt's fun making trades like that. Enjoy your new beauties. I didn't know you could move them in bloom like that. I hope they do well.
ReplyDeleteI love how this blog is developing, D! Especially Wordless Wednesdays, that's so cute. Wish I had a project I could chronicle in my blog. I guess I should start planting soon?
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