Monday, June 6, 2016

New Plants from Connecticut

I visited my friend Liz in Connecticut last weekend, and we spent a good amount of time visiting garden centers.  Naturally, since the last thing I needed was more plants, I bought more plants.  I kept meaning to take photos at the garden stores, and photos of Liz, but then we'd get out of the car and I'd be overwhelmed by plant fever and forget my plans to document the trip.  Sorry, readers.

Anyway, here are the new plants:


Look, it's another hosta.  This one is called "Wheee!"  I kid you not - somebody  named it that.  Kind of fun to say, isn't it?  Wheee!  It reminds me of my favorite GEICO commercial:


Fortunately, the hosta did not say "Wheee!" all the way home.  I planted it in the Land of Hostas:


"But wait," the more observant among you may say.  "There was already a hosta in that spot."  Good catch.  I moved that other hosta to a bigger pot.


I've been telling you all spring that this is the Victory hosta, which was going to be giant.  But yesterday, I looked through the tags that came with all my plants, and realized that this is, in fact, the Patriot hosta.  Which is not going to be giant.  Oops.

Moving right along, I know you will all be surprised to learn that I bought another hosta.


As the tag says, this one is called "Key West."  And it's already probably too big for the spot where I put it.


"Wait!" says my imaginary hyper-observant reader.  "There was no room in that pot either!"  True enough.  I removed a hydrangea and took it to Connecticut to live with Liz.  My hydrangeas are surviving here but I have a feeling they'd rather get some sun.

Plant number three is not a hosta - it's a heuchera.  Say hello to the Fire Chief.


I just love the colors on this one.  Fire Chief sort of puts Paprika to shame, size-wise.


And finally, you remember my whining about the purple heucheras that took two months to arrive.  Well, they're here.


They didn't travel too well but I'm wishing them a speedy recovery.  The three green plants came from a packet at Home Depot - $7.99 for three plants.  They're Stained Glass hostas, and they look reasonably good for coming out of a plastic bag imported from the Netherlands.  As you can see, I planted them in a plastic windowbox, and we'll see how they perform.