garden roundup- end of February

Today I had a little time before work to work out in the yard. I had hoped to get some more lillies of the valley and hostas planted, but as it worked out, I only got some more lillies of the valley planted. I did however get to take a look at how some of my plants are doing as we are starting to head on into spring.

Lillies of the Valley: not doing so well so far, except one (who knows it might be a wild onion) that seems to have greened up and is growing. The others are all whitish. I did plant two more bunches today.

Elegens Hostas: not sure on these either, one has had its leaves green up a bit. Several others have lost the weird white leaves they had due mainly to dogs running over them and on two others the white leaves are kind of pulpy now. I did make sure I pulled the mulch back from the crowns and now that it is warmer, I removed the pine needles from on top of the hostas.

Other hostas: Stilletto is coming up, so I pushed back the pine needle mulch. Guacamole is also looking like its two ends that are above ground are starting to look a very little bit green so I pushed back the mulch there as well. As for the nameless hosta, I rooted around under the mulch in the area it should be, so who knows if it made it or not, time will tell.

Forsythia: Spotted a bloom on it today.

Camellias: Debutante still has no buds and one of the dogs broke one stem off, hope she survives, if not I'll get a bigger pink camellia next year. One Tom looks like it is getting ready to bloom again. I have decided against trying to plant Margaret Davis until after she is done blooming. Should still have enough time to get her in the ground before hot weather.

The other shrubs seem to just be doing their thing.

Backyard potted plants: one stem of the Rosemary seems to be dying and the vinca also looks bad and needs to be replaced with something else.

Annual Garden: Thanks to the dogs running, the pansies have pretty much had it. I also have two snapdragons that seem to be dying, one still in a 4 pack and the other in the ground. My goal for this weekend is to get those other snaps planted.

Front porch plants: Most are doing well, except the bowl. Two of the English Daisies in the bowl are blooming, one looks okay and two are definately goners and will be replaced this weekend. I also have one artemesia that is pretty much dead.

Bulbs:
- paperwhites- seem to be done for the year
- crocus- don't really seem to be coming up at all
- iris- starting to come up on both sides of the walkway
- hyacinths- starting to come up, but the dogs also have run over them quite a bit, so don't know how they will do
- tulips- saw the very beginnings of them coming up in the big white pot
- scilla- a total surprise when I went to plant lillies of the valley today, but the scilla seem to be coming up alongside the house. Hope there is enough sun for them to bloom.
Haven't seen any signs of my other bulbs, except an area that *might* be renunculus, either that or weeds...

I also need to weed my foundation beds again, especially the bed around the tree.

The plan for this weekend is to:
- remove dead plants from the bowl and replace them with new plants
- plant remaining snapdragons
- remove all damaged pansies still in the ground
- plant firewitch dianthus around edge of annual garden
- plant 2 Autumn Ferns behind the one garbage can
- continue planting bareroot hostas
- continue planting bareroot lillies of the valley
- plant clematis
- try to decide on location and plant bleeding hearts

To buy:
5 firewitch dianthus
1 white primrose for the bowl
something else for the bowl
2 Autumn ferns
1 bareroot Nico Blue hydrangea at Wal-Mart