Fall nursery clearance

Taking the garden design class at Brooklyn Botanical Garden really helped me not splurge on plants this year. It really taught me to plan and think and make lists and sketch. Then, with the arrival of October, I realised that it was time to go and visit my local garden nursery to see what they had on sale and were trying to get rid of. Choice is not always great but I find it's an excellent way to stretch my gardening dollar.

First stop was Hollandia Nursery in Bethel, CT. There was slim pickings but I managed to get:

3 Monarda didyma Jacob Cline (HB)

6 Agastache Blue Fortune (I had to remove the bees from these before putting them in the car) (HB)

2 flats of 10 Lobelia cardinalis (Cardinal flower) (HB)

2-3 Aster divericatus (white wood aster)

2 Heuchera "velvet night" (Coral Bells)

1 Aquilegia canadensis (Wild Columbine) (HB)

1 Aquilegia Ruby Port (HB)

1 Aquilegia (I forget the name) (HB)

This past weekend I hit up the local Agway - perenials and shrubs etc were 70% off. I admit I did go a little nutty but because I've spent most of the summer not buying but researching, planning and sketching, I was able to look through what they had on offer and buy things that I needed rather than things on a whim. So from Agway I got all the following 26 plants - some large well-established) for $100 (labelled prices added up to over $300)

2 large Nepeta subsellis 'Candy Cat'

2 large Nepeta faassenii Dropmore

2 Salvia sylvestris Blue Queen

2 large Salvia Endless Love (HB)

2 Deparia pycnosora (Big Brother Fern) (need to get the woodland area started)

1 Aster diveraticus (White Wood Aster)

1 mystery plant - I had no clue what Centaurea dealbata was other than I liked the leaf shape (it's a cornflower)

1 Oenothera fruticosa (Winter Primrose)

2 Heuchera Swirling Fantasy (Coral Bells)

1 Aruncus Misty Lace (Goatsbeard)

1 Solidago Sweety (dwarf goldenrod)

1 Veronica Darwin Blue (Speedwell) (HB)

4 Eupatorium dubium phantom (Dwarf Joe Pye Weed) (HB)

3 Aquilegia Nora Barlow (Columbine)

1 Aquilegia vulgaris Grandmother's Garden (Columbine)

I took Tuesday off work as Bob was home and while he worked I gardened and got the hummingbird garden (HB) established and structured, I moved the foxgloves that had self seeded in the wrong places around the yard and also moved and divided my Echinacea magnus (the 4ft high buggers) so there's some height at the back of the borders to. I'll take a pic shortly to show how its coming along. I also had plants for the partial shade perennial bed I am wanting to start in the back "garden" (euphemism).
I'd like to fill in some gaps I left in the HB garden with Salvia Coccinea, Lupinus perennis and also plant some Scarlet Runner Bean and Purple Hyacinth bean on the arbor in the front. I'll grow these guys from seed.