One of the Eremurus that I picked up earlier this year from the Roberta's Unique Garden booth at the NJ Flower Show bloomed. It is really nice to see since I didn't expect them to have any flowers at all (according to the instructions, they bloom during the second year). The second Eremurus has foliage, but no bloom. I wonder how large the flower will be...
At the end of this flowerbed, is the Autumn Joy that I had transplanted earlier. Something needs to be done to liven that area during the summer. I am thinking about adding yellow-orange day lilies since they are drought tolerant and tough. The color should contrast nicely against the purple plumes of the ornamental grass.
The lilies that I planted last year does not appear to be making it through. It looks as if something had eaten to top of the stem where the flower should be, as well as several leaves. It could be insects. In any case, I won't be planting oriental lilies again since they don't seem to work well for me.
The strawberries are not doing very well either. There was at least one berry with sooty mold and some of the berries were looking very sad. I cut them all away, hoping to do better. One problem with the hanging baskets is that since I can't see into them because of my height, I don't know if anything is wrong with them. I'm contemplating taking the strawberry plants out and planting some flowering plants instead.
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