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This summer my plant caretaker accidentally knocked off the healthy green sprout on my "Double Delight" rose, while dragging a hose to water an Alberta spruce. This is the rose that has suffered greatly the past few years from accidental weed-whacking. Now it is down to just one cane. Any...

Thanks, Nyboy. I dug it up at dark last night and put it in a clay pot (the coneflower). I still have not dug up the columbine. This morning I watered the pot heavily and stuck it in deep shade. Do you think I could keep the columbine in the clay pot until the cooler weather of fall, at...

Thanks to both of you!

"The Helpers" are back at it. They dug up my front garden to place a conduit, and I have to transplant a large coneflower and a large columbine that were growing there. Any tips as to how best to go about this in this hot weather? It's to be about 89 F here tomorrow and in the 90s for the...

But maybe I need to get turned on to impatiens. Can you think of some gorgeous varieties of them. I am big into fragrant plants. Any fragrant shade-loving annuals you can think of?

Well, the cats take to this raised bed in the summer, for shade, so I'm thinking the early blooming hyacinths would be perfect, and then the cats could laze in their drying foliage during the summer. I don't want to invest in annuals. But thanks for the idea. I might try a few impatiens, near...

Oh, my, Smart Red. I just had an idea... What about filling my raised bed with regular hyacinths--- the super fragrant ones? Would they do okay under the vining maple in the summer, when it is leafed out. They are one of my earliest bloomers here. A whole bed of their fragrance would be so...

What different shades do grape hyacinths come in? Are there colors besides the blue-ish and purplish hues? Pink?

The cats do love to lie in the shade on the raised bed in the summer, I guess I'll have to cover the bulbs as their foliage is drying. Otherwise, the cats might dig some of them up.

It's the heat of the summer that tends to get plants in this raised bed, or it has been, in past years. That's why I think the spring flowering bulbs might be my best bet for it, and I'd love spreaders. Do you think daffodils or grape hyacinths would do better under the shade of this vining...

Do you think crocuses would do okay in that shade, too? Any other fun bulbs you can think of that might thrive there? The last two years' tulips were not that showy, but that was all over my garden, not just in the raised bed. Hopefully, they'll be better this year, and if so, I'll plant some...

Super news, Smart Red! I have transplanted the grape hyacinths I accidentally pulled up today to the raised bed, so we'll see how they do. It just might be the perfect solution! Perhaps I'll throw in a few crocuses next fall, too.

The grape hyacinths in this photo appear to be in the shade; don't they? http://www.visualphotos.com/photo/1x6042963/grape-hyacinth-muscari-sp-flowers.jpg

Several years ago we built a raised bed that did not do right. The soil got too hot, I think, from the plastic liner, even though we poked lots of holes in the liner. Nothing would grow, except tulips and a few other things like ornamental cabbage and carrots. The soil suddenly seems better...

CatJac, the first one has poked through today! Yippee!

Thanks for your feedback, Smart Red! I hope you are right. (You usually are! LOL).

Nice and warm here today-- 60ish. I bought some more glads, just to be on the safe side. Will experiment and see how both sets do. It could be that none of them are any good. I will save the receipts in case... Yes, my bad, with the hyphen. HAHA!

Thanks, Steve. I did a Google Image on gladiola corms, and they are all yellow! LOL. The joke is on me. The whole inside of the "nut," so to speak shows up as bright yellow, so I think they are fine. Sorry about your dahlias. I didn't dig mine early enough this year-- generally you wait...

The corms were yellow BEFORE I accidentally left them in the car overnight. Here in my zone in Salt Lake City, Utah, I don't have to dig my gladiolas each fall. They come back in the spring just fine, usually. But they are planted in the ground. I'm worried that the ones in the car might...

Yesterday I couldn't resist buying gladiola corms at The Dollar Tree store-- 6 corms per bag for a buck a bag. They come from Holland Bulb Farms. The varieties are "Plum Tart," "Dayglo Mix," "Endless Love," and "Blue Lagoon." They also had a yellow variety I didn't buy. However, I forgot I...