On Sunday my husband finished moving the wood from the trees.
The woodpile
I got an early start on Monday morning, our 1 day of decent temperatures for the next 2 weeks. Three loads of laundry on the line by 6:30 and husband up and moving to help me move plants.
Old North garden before
We started in the Old North garden and only had to dig in 3’. The blood root could stay.
We took out the American ginger, astilbe, Jacob’s ladder, and looked for the roots to the lesser celandine but could not find them. They got planted in the Big garden near the apple tree, as that’s the most shade I have there.
Azalea in Old North garden in June
Next we pruned the azalea heavily, took off about ⅓ of it, as it will be dug up and moved by the excavator contractor.
Azalea after pruning
Bulkhead garden in June
Next we moved onto the Bulkhead garden. We dug up the bulbs using my map, but only found about ½ of them. Then we dug the Sylvia violet, the pink lamium, the white iris and finally the trailing lamium. They all went into the Big garden, in the back behind the horehound.
Bulkhead after
Things like hybrid spiderwort, lily of the valley, violets, and creeping thyme will be dug if I have room in the Big garden once I am done.
East garden in June
In the East garden, along the bulkhead, we dug up bulbs and got lots of large giant alliums. We found a few daffodils and crocus, and a few chiondoxas. We didn’t find a lot of ones we looked for though. Then we dug the veronica, verbascum, and lungwort and planted them in the Big garden.
We dug the species spiderwort and the sedum and the lovage and moved them to the Big garden. Everything got mulched as we went.
I was getting tired and my husband had had enough of the gardens by 11 AM so we set up the sprinkler in the Big garden and quit for the day.
We got about ⅓ of the digging done. We plan to get a very early start, about 5:30AM, tomorrow as the heat returns.