What, you've never heard of bare-root plants? They're dormant plants which are sold pretty much as the roots and above-ground plant, but without any dirt to form a root ball or any foliage on the stems. You plant them early in the spring and voila! a plant. They look like this when you pick them up from the nursery:
Bare-root plants should be soaked for at least an hour in water prior to planting.
Here's what the bed looked like before I started.
The first step was to sweep back all of the soil pep we use as a ground cover. No need to waste that stuff.
I also dug up all of the spring bulbs in this bed, for replanting once I'd installed the main plants. I planted these bulbs in October of 2009, so they've been in the ground about 18 months. It was cool to see how they'd grown side bulbs:
Daffodils:
Muscari:
Tulips:
I mentioned a desire for boxwoods, forsythia and burning bush in my earlier post. Guess what the nursery was out of in bare root plants? So what did I come home with instead?
Well, the sales girl convinced me of a dwarf cranberry viburnum bush. It'll look like this in the spring,
And then this in the fall:
I also picked up a dwarf Fritsch Spirea, which will look like this in the spring:
And this in the fall:
Those two shrubs will go at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock, in the bed respectively. Between the two shrubs, at 11 o'clock, I added an Annabelle Hydrangea, which will look like this:
I also transplanted the "Wine Delight" daylilly I planted last year. I'll look like this (someday):
So how does it look now that it's finished? Well... brown. At least until the plants grow in. But I'm excited to see them take off!
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