Planting and Transplanting flowering plants

Today was a busy gardening day. I was so excited to get a few new plants into the ground as well as to transplant a few others. I started off by planting a small Wiggle Worms Hosta that my buddy, Veronica, donated to me from her garden. 

This new hosta is at the opposite end of the shed garden from Empress Wu. Of course, to plant Wiggle Worm I had to dig up a huge section of ferns. That was a lotta work!

Veronica and I do a lot of trading back and forth and it is so much fun to have a friend who is as into gardening as I am. Empress Wu hosta was also a donation from Vernoica, last autumn, and the Empress is incredibly content in her new home. I have a fence around her so that the dogs that we dog sit for don't dig her up. However, each time I go out to gaze upon her, I hear her singing along with Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters as they belt out, "Don't Fence Me In..." So, I will remove the fence tomorrow as Wu will more than fill in all the empty space around her, over time, as she will be huge.

It really is a hosta day for me. The last time Veronica visited, we were checking out some of my azaleas and Veronica noticed a hosta hiding under some weeds. I had planted this hosta about 20 years ago and lost track of it. It had never liked its location and always got eaten by deer, but here it was still struggling to gain a foothold. So, today I dug it up and transplanted it between two mountain bluets in front of the back deck. It will be protected from deer as the backyard if fenced.

I don't know where I bought it from or what variety it is, but I think it will be happy here. I love the patterning on its leaf margins.

I bought a French Lavender variety that I think is Fringed Lavender (Lavandula dentata) from Mid Coast Growers and planted it in the pot that held a hybrid cross between an English and a Portuguese lavender (Lavandula x intermedia) last year.

The flowers on the Fringed Lavender are very different than that if x intermedia, and the foliage is not as fragrant. Next year, I hope to find Lavandula x intermedia again as its scent was incredibly soothing. The flower pot is on the front deck and I tend to run my hand over the leaves every time I pass by.