Generosity

Irises From Nick's Back Yard

Peonies From Nick's Back Yard

Prospect Gardens has once again benefited from the generosity of neighbors and friends. Plants donated by neighbors have been integrated into the garden since its beginning. Actually there are several different types of gardens rather than one type. The shrubs, the first to be planted, serve as a backbone or framework that link the different gardens.

Nick, a Regent neighbor, is now re-landscaping his back yard. As a result peonies, hostas, irises, and daffodils from his backyard became available. Initially I was only to take a few hostas to fill in the woodland garden under the trees on the Dudgeon Monroe side of the gardens.  But life took a different turn.

So yesterday on a bright and warm spring day almost all Nick's available  plants were installed. To my surprise, it looks like the peonies will survive. Peonies should be transplanted in the fall. The one pictured above was the least stressed plant and that may account for it's healthy status.  Ernie, another neighbor, took several that were looking stressed.  Ernie really has a green thumb so I bet the peonies will survive and thrive.

So after working from 9 to about 2, with a lunch break, all Nick's plants are now part of the gardens.