I plan, plant carefully, and watch what happens. Then I change my mind, make a new plan, plant carefully, and etc. This may go on a day or a week. If I refuse to like it, I will finally resort to just plunking it all over the place, until I am too tired to move it anymore. It is a system I have used through out my beds for years and years, And though I make myself crazy when a plant hits me this way, the truth is some of these anal addictive plunks have resulted in a few of my favorite spots in my gardens. Some fall under the "What was I thinking" category too.

I am a planner who eventually plunks!!

I thoroughly enjoy drawing it out. My career was in Residential Building Design, so planning is in my blood! Problem is, I tend towards symmetry, which is very restricting when it comes to nature so
I've learned some hard (and expensive) lessons! I think, I must have lived in a castle or an estate with formal, symmetrical gardens, and short, meticulously trimmed evergreen shrubs, in a former life! (fantasize much?? )

Every year, I have a few sessions of "musical plants". Like everyone else, I move stuff to other areas, for various obvious reasons, but mostly to make space for something new! Especially daylilies!

It's a constant exercise in the gardening technique of plunking, while pushing myself into the world of asymmetrical design....

I am a planner and a plunker! I have planned whole new beds and followed through with the design as planned (well, mostly ); but I tend to buy things on a whim and then, well, ya gotta just plunk em in somewhere.

I have done no planning this year, except for some vague idea of a color scheme. But I have purchased a quantity of bulbs and seeds. It is now past time to plant the darn things. It is not enough to just have them. I know that she who dies with the most stuff wins but in this case the stuff has to be the final product.