Your summer garden plans?

[aephi alum]

I haven't decided what to do this year. We have a huge deer population around here, which poses major problems.

I still have my faithful chives that have come back year after year for, what, 12 years now?

A couple of days ago, I sprayed my flowering plants with deer repellent. This includes azaleas, rhododendrons, and hydrangea. My lady's mantle is also poking through. I want to put down some daffodils and lily-of-the-valley this fall.

For veggies and herbs, I'm restricted to container gardening because of the deer. I've grown tomatoes and cucumbers, and I get so many that they rot on the vine. So I'm thinking of being Queen of Herbs this year, with maybe a tomato plant or two and a cucumber plant or two.

Note to self: Visit nursery next weekend.

[carnation]

Yeah! The new wisteria that got clobbered by the falling tree ('Blue Moon', supposedly blooms 3 times a year) is going to make it! Other shrubs we've put in include 2 hydrangeas ('Invincibelle'), a beautyberry, and a rhododendron.

I bought purple heliotrope plants from a nursery, couldn't find white, and they're going on the deck rail. My husband has also put the Confederate Jasmine on a trellis over there.

[carnation]

I posted somewhere on GC about how happy I was that we'd planted some Encore azaleas (the kind that bloom in the spring and fall). I have discovered the downside. Ours bloom better in the spring than in the fall so we have all these gorgeous and lacy pink azaleas blooming next to our orange and black Halloween display. Not seasonal looking at all!

[GeekyPenguin]

I just got some King Humbert canna lilies from one of my fiance's relatives - I am so excited to plant these next spring and see how they turn out.