{"id":5213,"date":"2014-06-28T22:44:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T20:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=5213"},"modified":"2014-06-28T22:44:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T20:44:43","slug":"slope_planted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2014\/06\/28\/slope_planted\/","title":{"rendered":"Slope, planted"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally! The slope of weeds is now a slope of perennials.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week I spent a couple of evenings distilling my ideas and plant lists into an actual planting plan. I’d been putting this off because it seemed hard. I don’t know much about individual plants. With many of the perennials that seemed most suitable based on my reading, I only had photos to go by – I had no picture in my head of what they actually look like or how large they grow.<\/p>\n

I was hoping there would be a tool for this, some nice software package or web site where I enter the size of my planting area, place my plants and then see some rendering of what it might look like. But no – I found nothing of the sort.<\/p>\n

So for the first draft I went back to my favourite low-tech tool: sticky notes. A small sticky note measures about 35 by 50 mm, which is not so far from the size of the average perennial, scaled down by 100. I drew our slope on paper, to scale, and then played around with sticky notes representing the various kinds of plants I had in mind. When I was roughly done I looked up each plant’s actual planting distance and drew a prettier and more durable version.<\/p>\n

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Today we went plant shopping, big time. And then we planted them and now it’s done! It will be very exciting to see whether this turns out anything like I imagine, and how well the plants will thrive. <\/p>\n

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Well… almost done. There were no Cimicifuga<\/i> to be found at Ulriksdal, so we’ll have to find those elsewhere. We took all the Aquilegia<\/i> they had (of the colour that I wanted) and a few of them were barely alive, so I might have to replace those as well.<\/p>\n

The planting list, for the record:
\nFront border: Alchemilla mollis (j\u00e4ttedaggk\u00e5pa, pehme kortsleht).
\nJust behind the Alchemilla, barely visible: Aquilegia “Ruby port” (akleja, aed-kurekell).
\nBehind those, around the stones: Carex morrowii “Ice Dance” (japansk starr, jaapani tarn).
\nBehind the Carex: placeholders for the Cimicifuga (h\u00f6stsilverax, lursslill)
\nBehind those, nearest the cellar wall: Lamprocapnos spectabilis (l\u00f6jtnantshj\u00e4rta, murtuds\u00fcda).
\nBorder next to the stairs: Epimedium rubrum (r\u00f6d sockblomma).
\nBetween the Epimedium and the stones: Astilbe “Rock and Roll”.
\nTop edge: Hosta fortunei “Aureomarginata”(funkia).
\nFar corner: Hemerocallis “Frans Hals” (daglilja, p\u00e4evaliilia).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally! The slope of weeds is now a slope of perennials. Earlier this week I spent a couple of evenings distilling my ideas and plant lists into an actual planting plan. I’d been putting this off because it seemed hard. I don’t know much about individual plants. With many of the perennials that seemed most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house_and_garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5214,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions\/5214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}