Field trip

I spent a lovely day with my Mom at the end of last week visiting two of my favorite gardening spots. First we drove out to Riverhead to the Peconic Herb Farm where I picked up a lot of interesting plants for my topiaries. They had a wonderful selection of fast growing, small leaf plants including, creeping Jenny, a chartreuse round leaf vine, some variegated ivies, and small leaf thyme. I am hoping to work on the rabbit and seal forms this weekend. Peconic Herb Farm is definitely worth a visit. It is fun to stroll the grounds that are located along a river in Calverton, Long Island. They carry a large selection of common and unusual herbs, trees, vegetables, roses, and perennials, as well as pots, books, seeds and fun stuff for the garden. Click on http://www.prherbfarm.com/ for directions and to learn more about the the many interesting programs that are offered there.
Next we drove to Southampton where we stopped at Lynch's nursery. Lynch's has an incredible inventory of annuals for pots, planters and beds. It doesn't matter when you go, chances are good that they will have what you are looking for. And the prices are reasonable. We could have shopped for plants all day, but my car was filled so we called it quits and went out to lunch. It was a great way to spend the day!
Back at the home garden, I started placing the dahlia stakes and figured out that I have room for almost 200 dahlias! For the plant supports I bought electrical pvc at Home Depot. I asked Larry to cut each piece of pvc into three sections (about 40 inches long.) Then I painted each piece dark green, placed them in the garden and began planting. So far I've planted about 20 dahlias (Nancy helped with the first 10.) Only 180 to go! I will need some help painting the rest of the stakes and getting the remainder of the plants in the ground. Hopefully some of my gardening buddies will stop by- hint, hint!