semperfiona | Planting

Went to the Sugar Creek garden center this morning and acquired several new plants: basil, rosemary, lavender, three varieties of tomatoes (Roma, Sungold--yellow cherry style -- and Old German--a red/yellow striped slicing tomato) some phlox, a few decorative perennials with purple foliage called Persian Shield, some strawberry plants called Hulaberries that produce white berries supposedly flavored like pineapple, and the weirdest thing of all: a Ketchup and Fries plant. It's a cherry tomato grafted onto a potato root system. We could not resist it.

But I am still going to have to go to another garden store. Despite their really cool variety of plants, Sugar Creek didn't have my favourite of the varieties I planted last year and I want it again: Cherokee Purple. Giant dark red/green to true purple slicing tomatoes with a delicious intense flavor.

Something we didn't buy, but will probably go back for: a shrub called Nishiki Willow. Long branches with white and pink leaves at the tips. They'll look fantastic against the brick of the house, but I just planted flowers in the place they would need to go, so we'd have to move those first, and we didn't think we had time to plant everything else we bought and still do that too.