Restless

Something about the garden at the townhouse has me restless right now.  I should be content to sit in the lawn chair on the patio and enjoy the view.  The garden is lush and full.  But I’m restless, looking and saying it needs adjustments.

Up north this would not bother me at all.  But the scope here is so much smaller, drawing attention to planned symmetry and proportion that seems to be stretched this year.

Maybe it’s because I’ve been looking at new gardens, the refreshes that we’ve done in the association.  They are at the start of their life and nothing is crowding anything.  Nothing is blocking the view of anything.  Their full potential is ahead of them.

That’s part of it.  But there’s more.  Things are looking good in parts of the garden here, but “missing” in others.  Moving the aureomarginata out of our garden here last fall, and into other association garden refreshes, left an odd empty space now that the tulips and crocuses are fading – one I don’t like.

There are hostas I wish I had moved/divided last fall that are now overgrown in their current space and that I wish we had divided last fall and put as a post-tulip layer in place of the aureomarginata, like the ‘Rainforest Sunrise’ out front.

Under the tree is bothering me too.  It feels hodge-podge this year.  I love the ‘Rainforest Sunrise’ hosta there, but other hostas there feel crowded and random.

Maybe it just needs some daylilies to start blooming 😊

And then there are irrigation patterns that I need to consider, like how the sprinkler hits daylilies that have gotten tall.  And there are mysteries – like why two ‘Just Plum Happy’ daylilies aren’t doing well this year, but everything around them is.

This weekend I know one decision for certain will drive some planting.  The lavender I planted last year definitely didn’t survive.

There are two to be pulled out that  will make way for the remaining two daylily seedlings from last year’s Purple D’Oro’ seeds.  The other two I planted here are doing fabulously, and the two available spots are right around the corner, making a nice pattern.

Wait!  Back up!  Is that a new “mini rock feature”!  Why yes, it is!   The old two pavers at the bottom of the downspout were not enhancing that space, so I gathered a number of rocks we have collected and previously scattered in the garden, and put them together for a new look.  Really liking that.  We’ll see what else this weekend brings for ideas.