Did the Miracle-Gro Work?

Last year I had dreams of a beautiful bed of sun loving perennials.  Visions of cut flowers were dancing in my head.  I decided to go with a color scheme of yellow and pink and worked everything I wanted to plant.  Then I started up adding up the numbers realized how expensive plants are.   Ouch. To help ease the budget, we ordered from Bluestone Perennials and got tons of plants in lots a great varieties for not much money.  Last year they were a bit small when we planted them-

 

Yeah pretty puny.  I was a little worried.  OK I was a lot worried.

But this year it has turned into this-

Still have a little growing to do, but I am amazed what a difference a year makes.  We lost a couple of plants to dogs and rabbits but that was an excuse to feed my plant buying habit for some fill ins.  So if you have a little patience, you should definitely give plant mail-order companies a try.

That and because they send you magazines in the dead of winter for spring ordering.  It’s like plant porn.