I'm experiencing some climate shock. No, not the winter. That's just misery, not shocking. I'm talking about a map I saw in a new catalog. The catalog is from High Country Gardens and if you live West of the Mississippi you should check it out.
The map is not a zone map but a wetness map. It tells you if you can successfully grow plants they list as Xeric or Very Xeric.
And yet again Blogger insists on posting this image sideways. I need to figure out how to fix that.
I can't. Which is going to be hard since some of my favorite perennials are in this catalog - lots of types of Agastache, Penstemon, and Salvias. I realized that when I picture a garden I base my mental plant selection on what I've seen in drier climates (and on drier blogs - all you prolific bloggers from Texas!). Now I'm holding my breath to see if some of the drought tolerant plants are going to survive the water logged soil of the New England spring (don't worry, I'll automatically start breathing again once I pass out). I guess I need to find some local gardens, New England garden blogs (if you know of any give me a comment) and shift my thoughts away from drought and heat tolerant plants. It's a whole new world of options out there.
Oh, and yes, we did get some very windy weather out of that last storm. It drove this branch into the ground.
But we didn't get snow, we got rain. The rain washed the snow away and I went out for a peak at the garden. Here's what I found:
These Violas (Johnny Jump Ups?) show up in the perennial beds.
My neighbor considers them weeds. I call them volunteers.
