The Garden of Bogturtle

 I keep a detailed, tedious spreadsheet in this computer about the gardens and plants. Where and when each plant was purchased and what each cost and present location. Nobody will care, I am confident. And then plants die or are moved. but I try. Anemone nemorosa, in two similar shades of blue-lavender, A. lipsiensis, in a pale yellow, and two sorts of Fall blooming hardy Cyclamen arrived in the mail and were planted, today, in the lens shaped bed outside the window in the big room where I type this. The Anemones are rather like Spring Ephemerals, growing and blooming now, but dying down to the root as Summer comes on. And the Knockout Roses will shade these plants, as they would be shaded in Summer, as they would in their native territory. Some Anemones and Cyclamen were also put in the little rock garden.  Forsthia 'Karl Sax' has been here for a lifetime. Individual flowers are large, for Forsythia, but I plan to order a sort that flowers all up and down the stems, heavily. ...