Geeekygirl’s Garden Blog

These are the Hostas that I planted in the garden this morning. I found them at Home Depot for $6 each. Everywhere else I’ve seen them they’ve been more expensive and not nearly as big as these guys. They’ve been hardening off for awhile and last night spent their first night outside along with the succulent.

The Hosta on the left with the white in the edges of the leaves is called Patriot and the one on the right is called Aurea Marginata. This is the perfect spot for them, as there’s trees on either side of them and the leaves prevent that spot from getting much sun. Hopefully they grow well there.

The tag says that for the winter you have to dig them up when they turn yellow in the in the fall, cut off all but 4″ off the top, clean the dirt off the roots and store in a cardboard box filled with dry peat moss in a cool dry place until spring.

This succulent is called Alpine Stonecrop (Sedum anacampsteros). I bought him at a garden centre a few weeks ago. i thought he looked interesting so I bought him. I planted him in the pot when I brought him home and have been hardening him off for the last week or so. Last night was his first outside. He’s a perennial so he should come back again. In a couple weeks he should start blooming with purple flowers. He should grow to be about 6″ high and 12″ wide.

I found this spider web while I was watering this morning. At first I totally didn’t see it, I almost put my arm through it. Once I saw it though I thought it would make a great picture so I grabbed a spray bottle and sprayed some water on it so that the camera would be able to pick it up. I think it’s a very pretty picture.

The rest of my plants are outside right now hardening off as I type. They’re going to stay out tonight and hopefully tomorrow I can start planting some of them. I have a ton of containers to fill up.

So I think I’ve finally figured out how to put photos into posts. It took me 20 minutes to do it today even though it took 5 yesterday when I tried to do it for the first time! Hopefully I’ll remember how for my next post.