I have already mentioned that I have recently taken delivery of a viburnum and I have also bought a couple more shrubs to plant as well. This has been rather nicely funded by the selling of an old camera, which made a nice opportunity for a bit of shrub perusing.
Here they are ready to be planted out:
Virburnum x bodnantense 'Dawn', which is the large one at the back. There is a Callicarpa japonica var leucocarpa, which is a white berry version of the more often seen purple 'Beauty Berry.' A Calycanthus floridus which has been bought to replace the one I had but it never really thrived and eventually just petered out. It might not actually be dead but I am pretty sure it is so this is my second attempt; if this fails I shall give up on it. There is a also a Stewartia pseudocamellia as well. This too is a second attempt as I (ahem, mutter, shuffles feet and looks embarrassed) might have mown my other one. I might have got carried away with the new lawn mower last year and mowed it flat. It was only a baby and I was very cross with myself for being so careless, I still don't know really how it happened as I knew exactly where it was and it was not in long grass that hid it, oh well.
Finally I bought a Punica granatum 'Mme Legrelle'. an ornamental pomegranate that is apparently hardy down to about -12c. I am a little nervous of this so I have put it in a pot for now so that if (when) the temperature plummets I can put it in the greenhouse this time. If it gets through the Winter okay I will probably plant it out in the Spring when it is strong enough to keep going.
Of course that meant I needed a planting session, which in turn meant I needed the rain to stop. Thankfully the rain paused and the sun made a brief but welcome appearance. After a bit of wandering around with the plant pots they were all placed except for the viburnum. Where I had wanted to put it no longer seemed the right place. Suddenly I was not so sure where I wanted it to be.
The day's work was done.