what's happening in my Calgary zone 3 garden May 4, 2009

Here are a few pics I snapped this morning (clockwise from top left):
siberian squill; pansies which survived last week's cold; lamium; monkshood; more lamium; and iceland poppies already in bud.  The crocuses are just finishing.

Lamium!  I love lamium.  It has such pretty leaves, and will grow in tough shade (which I have a lot of) and it starts growing so early when you're just dying for something green in the garden!  I have a few stray pieces I'm going to dig up this week and spread around.  It also looks great in containers so I may save some for spillers.

It was a lovely week-end, wasn't it?  I didn't have a lot of time for gardening but I did manage to help someone dig up a russian sage (and I took a piece for my new front garden), finished sweeping the patios, moved a few perennials and got my carrot, beets and pea seeds in the ground.  It sure feels good to be finally gardening!!

May the 4th be with you! ;-)

Comments

[The Ms. S.]

I love lamium, too! My fave is the White Nancy.

I'll be interested to hear how the Russian Sage does for you. I think it is gorgeous and want to get some for my back lane strip outside the fence as I read it may be deer resistant and we do have a few that wander through here.

May the 4th be with you too! :)

[Janice]

I'll let you know. After bringing my piece home and putting it in a temporary spot, I looked up Russian Sage in a book... which said the plant doesn't like to be divided. Oops! But I'm sure we got a very good piece of stem and lots of roots with each division, so we'll see how they do.
I already have one in my backyard and it does very well. It dies to the ground every year (it's a shrub in warmer climates) but otherwise no problems.
Janice