Seeds: Set out a tray of 120 Jiffy-7 peat pellets seeded with perennials: Achillea millefolium, Achillea m. var. Summer Pastels, Viola cornuta, Viola tricolor, Cheiranthus cheiri (one packet mixed colors, one packet all dark red), Centranthus ruber, Campsis radicans, Helenium autumnale, Lychnis coronaria atrosanguinea, Buddleia alternifolia,
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I'm hoping to get the rest of my seeds (yellow, purple, and pink tomatoes, lots of eggplant and carrots and watermelons) in the ground this weekend. I picked out a coconut-scented geranium at a nursery, and the sales lady was agog. She hadn't realized they had anything like that.
It does smell awfully good, especially next to the curry plant.
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Coconut geranium's nice. I'm fond of rose geranium myself. I like to have at least one spot where the path passes between a rose geranium and a lemon verbena, because they smell so good in combination when you brush past them. Come to think of it, coconut and curry would work too. Get a little lime in there and it'll smell like a Thai restaurant.
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If citrus trees didn't scream and collapse at the notion of being planted out here, I'd have one in a heartbeat. I'd bring one indoors (I've always wanted a dwarf kefir tree) but it's too tempting a target for the felines.
My earliest memories have desert orange trees wafting through them. I bought a couple mockorange shrubs to see if I can achieve a passing resemblance to the scent I remember; we'll see, next spring.
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Not that I needed roses. This year I bought a couple dozen for a hedge from David Austin, and they are easily the best roses I have ever received. I would definitely be order more roses from them for other parts of the garden, except that they sent me 45 plants when I had ordered 26, which means that I will never want for roses again.
In regards to mint, our neighbors have it and it has invaded our garden, encouraged by the previous owners who were not gardeners. I spend a great deal of time pulling the stuff out, which would be more unpleasant except that afterwards the whole place smells like I've brushed its teeth. Freshens up the city green bin sweetly, too, unlike Bermuda grass, which is vile and evil and just rots into a stinky mass.
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Those are great-looking roses you got from David Austin, and 45 when you paid for 26 is definitely an embarrassment of riches. Interesting thing you've got going there with the bricks. My old garden on Staten Island did the same thing with paving slates. My best guess was that they'd been laid down directly on the soil, and had sunk over time.
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I did have a garden in Massachusetts that had an entirely submerged slate patio about four inches down. I hemmed and hawed over what to do, and eventually just dug it out, because as it turned out it was level and still in good condition. I think that there the grass and dirt had piled up over the slates rather than the slates sinking into the ground.
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