Thread by @Hal_Duncan

New plants! Bergamot "Balmy Rose" to be precise.

Trying out some positioning for the bergamot. Two over on one side of the hydrangea, I think, with space for a third of a different cultivar, or a wild bergamot, to mix it up.

Tried out a couple of different spots for the third on the other side of the hydrangea. One place for this kid, one for the Cambridge scarlet or a wild bergamot, depending what I decide.

Settled on moving the self heal back to plant it here, probably with the Cambridge scarlet in the other spot over by the American juniper.

The other two in on the other side. I may have fucked up a bulb while digging, but so it goes. I was planning on getting some more in here for next spring anyway.

Canes means plans.

So we should have a bit of a drift of sundry bergamots along in front of the hydrangea eventually, behind the achillea, everything in reds and pinks and reddish purples. Fingers crossed it all comes up OK.

Dug out a couple of seedlings from below the hydrangea while I was in there. Ash, I thought, but out in the light I'm not so sure, the leaves looking darker on one, maybe rounder too? And they have different degrees of serration.

My plant ID app does suggest ash for the darker leafed one, right enough, and it would be consistent with this apparently being the Year of the Ash as last year was the Year of the Birch. If they make it through, that'll be yet more baby trees for the nursery.

At this rate, #Rakesden could turn into a *literal* nursery, with me unable to bring myself to kill em, potting everything up and just hoping to find a good home for them eventually.

I am still no wiser as to what this lanky lad is. There's online pics of verbena rigida leaves that look the right shape, but it's nothing like the bonariensis in thickness and such. Nothing my plant ID app suggests is convincing.