IT WASN'T EVEN ON THE LIST!

When I first mentioned our decision to move to Winnipeg I suggested some of the bigger projects that I would need to focus on: the flagstone path, adding a new garden by the old tree and getting the moss border in around the Lakefront Garden.

I've actually done a pretty good job with it, and then some. 

One thing that was not on the list was the North Deck Garden.  It was going to be okay if this took a few years to get done. 

But who are we kidding? 

Once I see the potential - and happen have an endless supply of free plant material at hand (from local roadside ditches) - well what is one supposed to do?

At the front I have put Black-Eyed-Susans since I think they will require the most sun , behind them I have put Oxeye Daisies - and between and beneath them all - Sundrops!  At the back is a hardy geranium I planted just to soften the break line where wall and garden meet.  And while it is serving that purpose well, the job is much more suited to... daylilies of course!

I'll be taking out the geranium and adding it to the ferns at the front and putting in some daylilies here.  They have the right stature for the back of the garden.  I can just picture their bloom stalks pushing their way through the ferns, ensuring they will be noticed.

I said I was going to move a lot of Sundrops from the Lily Garden, and I was right.  Seeing the Sundrops in the LakeFront Garden still in full bloom while  the Lily Garden is bereft of Sundrops I realized that the Lily Garden is really not the right place for the SunDrops at all. 
It just does not allow them to be all that they can be. 

So I will move as many as I have time to, and will have all winter to figure out what to put in its place next year.

 I can already picture this time next year with the Sundrops' bright yellow blooms filling the space under the decks, along the water and up alongside the path.  They are really going to have a heck of an impact, just you wait and see!