Planning a garden

Well, this weekend we went plant shopping. Or I should probably say browsing.
We went to one of our local nurseries in the attempt to get som plant ideas. Something we decided to do to help choose plants for the yard and open discussion of where they would look best.

To keep the plants straight I took a picture of each with my phone and then emailed myself that picture with the name of the plant in the subject head. Which would have been great if those emails had actually gone through and my phone had a larger memory. As it stands I have only one remaining picture on my phone as it complained of having a full memory, and none of those emails went through. I thought this would have been better because there would have been no doubt behind what picture was what plant as what often happens when taking pictures by camera (which I had forgotten to grab before we left) and thought this was a good and even better idea. Guess that backfired. So, thankfully I was also keeping notes of how big each plant got, what kind of sun it liked be it full, partial, or shade, and other tidbits the tag may have given like if it was hardy or what moisture content it liked.

Now comes the hard part of going through my notes and finding picures online of each of the plants we looked at and thought would be good in our garden somewhere.

Something already planned that I'm also working on is finding more information about each of the plants. I said I took down what notes I could but let's face it; those little cards on the plant don't tell everything. So I'm sorting through information overload, and underload in some cases, trying to find if my two brown thumbs would be able to grow these plants.

One thing we are focusing on is perennials so that we aren't buying new plants each year. Hopefully this will help save some money each year.