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Today's Plantings
May 14, 2008 | 9:39 PM PST
Tags: hostas , shade garden , arctic beauty kiwi , hardy kiwi , Ostrich Fern , cinnamon fern , scotch moss , irish moss , lady's mantle , Bleeding Heart , astilbe , coral bells , hyacinth , dublin elaine daylily , Daylily , blue flax , minnesota , weeds , weed hound , lawn care

Patrick started off his day with lots and lots of dandelion pulling with our favorite new gardget http://www.hound-dog.com/weed
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After I returned from work we ate a quick lunch and headed out to a nearby greenhouse that comes highly recommended.   I wanted to look around for inspiration, but of course we came home with a backseat of treaures :)

We were lucky enough to find a male and a female Arctic Kiwi!  They are hardy enough for us here in MN and they are a perennial vine that grows up to 30 feet tall!  Patrick is planting an awesome partial sun garden/shade under our deck.  So far we have:

Male and Female Arctic Kiwi

Ostrich Fern

Cinnamon Fern

Scotch and Irish Moss

Lady's Mantle

Coral Bells

Astilbe (a red drooping variety)

Bleeding Heart

 

We went to a great plant sale last weekend, too, and bought a couple of mini hostas.  Turns out that we already had a few clumps of variegated hostas in the rock garden out front - they just started poking up!  So the minis will be an extension of the existing hosta display.  We planted Lemon Delight, Jelly Bean, and Baby Bunting.  I also planted a Dublin Elaine Daylily behind the hostas. 

I put a row of hyancinths along our front door stoop - they smell so gorgeous!  I alternated whites and blues.

I put a small patch of blue flax near the septic.

 

Pictures soon, sleep now  :)