The new place is 3.28 acres, so that plus the 10 is a lot of grass. My brother told me he’d do the back field & old riding ring with the bush hog if I got too overwhelmed with trying to keep both places mowed. So much of the fences are down (only 50+ years old), we can’t put anything on the fields without major repairs & since we are selling, it’s not worth fixing them.
Oh, I see. I thought 10 acres was acting as your LAWN at the new place! ;)
There is a greenhouse fairly close to us (15-20 min) that I really like - it’s small(er) than others closer (5 minutes) & it tends to have different plants. It’s a true greenhouse, not a garden center like Lowe’s, etc.
I got online to check ‘availability’ and what do I see but Bee Balm ‘Jacob Cline’ (Monarda didyma). When I looked it up, it has huge red flowers, is considered one of the very best red Monarda varieties & is one of the most mildew resistant.
It’s great in gardens, gets pretty tall, but does well in pots, too. Mom has 6 very large pots that all have the same color/design & should also look nice on the patio. She has two that are currently not planted with hostas & I have talked her into dumping out whatever is in them. I think we are going to the greenhouse this afternoon & buying 2 of the Jacob Cline Monardas ... they shouldn’t be too big this early. They can live in their greenhouse pots for a week or two until I can get the big pots to the patio - also ordering pot caddies so we can move them around.
This is exciting - the red monardas should also help attract humming birds to our place. Next to the patio is a butterfly bush so we should have plenty of butterflies between that bush & the monarda.
The plan for purple is to transplant some of my purple native Monarda this fall, after blooming. By then, the hostas in two more pots should be dying back at which point it might be easier for mom to relinquish those pots. She LOVES her hostas and they are beautiful; however, it is a constant fight with the deer and since we have a deer HERD in the area at the new place (I’ve seen them on our property, not just in the surrounding fields & we’re talking 6-8), we are not planting anything that deer find tasty. We have several apple trees and I know they will attract deer to our place big time, once apples start falling off the tree(s).