New Purchases

That's the last of the Iroquois grant money - $316 worth. I took a trip up to Earth Tones in Woodbury yesterday and spent probably and hour picking everything out. It's a fun nursery to walk through because everything is native.

Here's one of my picks: Virginia Strawberry. The farm strawberries everyone eats are a cross between this strawberry, which has tiny but very tasty berries, and a European strawberry, which has larges berries with little flavor.

This is a groundcover for the rock garden called Pussytoes. Hopefully it will take off and help hold the soil on the slope.

This is wintergreen. I do sometimes see this hiking, most recently near Birchbank Trail. I used to see this a lot in the sand hills of northern Wisconsin.

I skipped the heat and planted just before nightfall tonight. We're supposed to have rain tonight and cooler temps tomorrow. Here are the plants:

Bearberry - Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Steeplebush - Spiraea tomentosa
Wild Stone Crop - Sedum ternatum
Field Pussytoes - Antennaria neglecta
Pinxter Azalea - Rhododendron nudiflorum
Wild Live Forever - Sedum telephioides
Virgina Strawberry - Fragaria virginiana
Creeping Phlox - Phlox subulata
Wintergreen - Gaultheria procumbens
Wood Iris - Iris cristata
Blanket Flower - Gaillardia arististata
Leucothoe - Leucothoe axillaris