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Planting the Raingarden

Yesterday, I put in two yellow twig dogwoods, both about 3 ft high, one recently acquired at the Green Elephant Plant Swap in Redmond, the other has been in the front for several years, not growing very well. Also put in two tiny starts of red twig cornus, pulled up from some place last year. Walking in the business park near North Creek, in the Quadrant as we call it, sometimes I see overgrown plantings edging near the sidewalk, often rugosa rose or red twig dogwood, so I just pull up a little start with some roots. It will be cut back anyway. More on Scrounging for Plants later.

Also planted Native Iris, Douglassi, and dayliles, some other iris I had lying around, three starts of sword fern, and on the upper edge, zone 3 which gets the least amount of water, planted two mugo pines, two Evergreen bluberries, and several starts of Euphorbia, red bonnet I think -- all stuff from the plant swap.

The Zone areas areas loosely defined, so far. But I've been able to increase the size of the garden just by loosening the soil around the upper edge, smoothing out down to the wet middle, so there's more of a sloping line from upper ground level to the lower muddy middle.

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