Although we have the new Student Exhibition Gardens, we are still keeping our gardens at the row, which I think is great. It has been such a good learning experience and a great chance to experiment with things. This year I changed my vegetable garden around a bit to allow for better hose accesibility and just to change things up in general. I’ve changed my ornamental garden as well this year. I left most of my perennials and moved them around a bit, planted in some Amsonia hubrichtii and an Aquilegia canadensis, and the rest of the circular path I had last year has been transformed in to an ampitheatre style rock garden. I have been really interested in trying out some mosses and succulents which are filling in the rock spaces. I am really happy with the way it turned out and I think it will also be interesting to see if it can stand the test of low watering needs. I anticipate the succulents will need less water than the mosses but that is the fun part…now I get to play around with them…

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