On a good year (cough) I have the bed ready and the markers in place before the shipment arrives. When it comes, I just plop them in their place and they are ready to grow. Sometimes they have to wait in their boxes a couple day to let me catch up. When I imported some from Australia, I planted them in pots first and then placed them later. I guess I could have just planted them anyway, but I wasn't sure where they were going at that time. Yesterday I prepared a new bed, between the rain storms, and planted some peonies in it, and will plant a clematis today. I'm expecting a trade box soon, and my order from France is due any day. One came yesterday from Arlyn,
and I planted some of those, and will finish that today. They mostly will be going into the historic bed. The rain lasted on and off all night, but should be ending here soon. Hope it does so I can get digging!
