It has been a long winter and I am impatient. I cross my fingers that is not a 'lethal combination'.
These "Hens 'n Chicks" were overwintered in my parent's garden. You can see they are still in their pots so the roots would not be disturbed in their temporary home. It amazes me that succulents can survive -35 degree temperatures.
Under the large Spruce in the front of the house is where I am putting the Alpine garden. Despite being under a large tree it appears it will get a fair amount of light in the afternoon. Granted I have not been here yet for a summer, but as I said earlier, I am willing to roll the dice.
After reading up a bit for my post on my parent's amazing front porch planter and discovering some of the trends in trough gardening I decided to mound some soil between a few of the bigger rocks to create small hills for added interest. in the pic above I have mounded the one on the right and am about to make another on the left.
I have mixed Goldmoss Stonecrop and Sempervivum on each mound and behind the one on the right I planted 5 pots of mixed succulents from last year's "Friends of Gardens Manitoba" Fall Perennial Sale.I written before about the importance of "dressing" your garden after planting. Can you see how there are pine needles, pine cones and such sprinkled between the plants? I do not like the look of a newly planted garden. I want my neighbours to wonder if I did not in fact plant these in the fall.
To be honest I am not sure that I should have planted them mixed like this or reserved one mound each for each type of plant. I am tempted to move them, after all I am a perennial gardener and that is part of what we do, is it not?
Before I do anything hasty I would love some crowd-sourced feedback - what would you do? Leave it or change it? Cast your votes.
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