I picked up the final plants for the side steps on Saturday and got all the plants in the ground yesterday. Here are a few progress pictures.

https://orangegnome.com/posts/3719/plants-in-the-ground

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Got all the plants in the ground and drip irrigation in place, but finished after dark. Pictures hopefully tomorrow!

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Got my final plants today from Wild Roots Native Nursery (https://wildrootsnativenursery.com/): Pennsylvania sedge!

Excited to get all these plants in the ground.

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And rounded out with a trip to Cottage Garden Natives (https://www.cottagegardennatives.com/) for ebony spleenwort (asplenium platyneuron), partridgeberry (mitchella repens), and one more mountain stonecrop (sedum ternatum) as a backup.

All that’s left to get is the Pennsylvania sedge.

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Welp, struck out on getting rue anemone (anemonella thalictroides) at the Woodlands Garden (https://www.woodlandsgarden.org/) plant sale.

They had a synonym for it, thalactricum thalictroides, on the plant list, but actually had meadow rue (thalactricum pubescens).

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Picked up 3 woodland asters (eurybia divaricata), a foamflower (tiarella cordifolia), and a great blue lobelia (lobelia siphilitica) at Swallowtail Center (https://www.swallowtailcenter.com/). And got a free bee balm (monarda bradburyana) thrown in!

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Fall is around the corner, and it’s about time to execute on the planning and preparation I’ve already done to plant our side steps bed.

These are the plants I plant to purchase.

https://orangegnome.com/posts/3689/side-steps-plant-shopping-list

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I finished mapping the sunlight for this year’s side steps planting project a few weeks ago, and today I prepped the beds. The only other thing to do between now and fall planting time is to test the drip irrigation.

https://orangegnome.com/posts/3468/side-steps-sunlight-mapping-and-bed-prep

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I don’t plan on planting our side steps area until next year, but I have some tasks to prepare for that. First among those: mapping the space.

https://orangegnome.com/posts/3077/mapping-our-side-steps

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Megan and I identified next year’s planting project: the side steps.

https://orangegnome.com/posts/3001/2025s-planting-project-identified-the-side-steps

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