What should I plant here?

Love those colors!!

deborahg said:
Love those colors!!

I was just thinking the same thing.

I'm keeping an eye on the planting beds at the new house season by season and taking notes on what changes I want to make. Obviously, the dead shrubs have to go, but I also want to pull out some shrubs that look like green Cousin It wannabes. And the previous owners put in a lot of blue and yellow flowers, and some white, so I think what we need is probably more white and some dark red. And we know we want to put in some yellow and apricot roses, with at least one verging on burnt orange. I also want another Winchester Cathedral rose, which we put into the garden at our previous house in CT, and it's blooming beautifully now.

I love "hot" colors in the garden, set off by white and yellow. Methane blue is one of my favorites.

Why I LOVE container gardening -- the lavender and all the flowers are in pots --the day lilies are Ina bed andjust starting now to send up buds

Gardeners' alert -- young and old, beginner and master -- hilarious

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/my-perennial-dilemma/?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

One more gardening question: I'm creating a compost heap. Where should I put the bin? Will it smell badly

A compost heap (as in open) or a bin (closed)? If it's going to be a bin with a lid, the smell won't be much of an issue, although I wouldn't put it right by the door or windows. If it's a heap, you will probably get some smells, so I would put it at the back of the back yard. It also depends what you put in it. Are you going to put your organic kitchen garbage in it (banana peels, veggie scrapings, eggshells etc.)? If so, then you will definitely get some smells as they begin to rot.

Thanks! It's going to be in an open bin (if my husband ever gets around to building the kit I got). Near the back makes sense.

deborahg said:
Thanks! It's going to be in an open bin (if my husband ever gets around to building the kit I got). Near the back makes sense.

Really?

It makes sense from an aesthetics point of view, too, for me. They are usually not things of beauty. ;-)

deborahg said:
Thanks! It's going to be in an open bin (if my husband ever gets around to building the kit I got). Near the back makes sense.

I'd agree with putting it in the back for aesthetic reasons, but I've never known them to smell. Mine smells like earth, not garbage.

After posting that NYT oped piece earlier, I thought you would enjoy this saying which I have had framed for some 20 years and still smile when I reread it. I might have posted it before on the old MOL

mjh said:

deborahg said:
Thanks! It's going to be in an open bin (if my husband ever gets around to building the kit I got). Near the back makes sense.

I'd agree with putting it in the back for aesthetic reasons, but I've never known them to smell. Mine smells like earth, not garbage.

We had one on our deck at our first house in NJ, and when I opened it, there was a smell I didn't enjoy. We put kitchen scraps in it, so maybe that's what caused it.