Michigan Gardening: scaling back this fall, 1 by museumgirl

museumgirl wrote:
Hi everyone,
I garden in Royal Oak. This fall I will be scaling back on my garden beds (insert frowny face here.) I just have too much to deal with and have been shrinking my beds rather than expanding them. Rather than post on Craigslist, I figured I'd start here to find new homes for my extra plants.

I have a miniature rose, Old country Charm, an alba rose (Great Maiden's blush), a few foxglove seedlings, a nice clump of red carnations, and bunches of wild geranium, cranesbill, but I don't know the variety.

Here are a few photos taken beginning of July. I know its difficult to see what's going on in this picture. The tall ones are bachelor buttons, and there are some cosmos that re-seed. The alba is in the middle of the bed, its about 4 years old. Let me know if anything you see would have a better home at your house! I am taking out this whole bed, except for (maybe) the large red rose, Home Run. (Unless someone talks me out of it...) There is also plenty of sedum groundcover, with pink blooms.