Three Springs https://zortixus.com/ 2026-09-02T09:00:00Z Year three in September: what finally works and the three I am giving up onhttps://zortixus.com/2026/year-three-september-verdict/2026-09-02T09:00:00ZThe border at the end of its third season, judged against the Sunday photographs. Which plants earned their place, which never did, and the rule of planting in fives. Dividing and moving: twenty-two clumps shifted in one long weekendhttps://zortixus.com/2026/dividing-and-moving-twenty-two-clumps/2026-04-19T09:00:00ZThe second big reshuffle, done from a plan drawn on graph paper over the winter: what was divided, what was moved, and how the ground and the weather cooperated. The August gap: nothing between the geraniums and the astershttps://zortixus.com/2025/august-gap-geraniums-asters/2025-08-09T09:00:00ZIn the second summer the border peaked in June and then went quiet. The Sunday photographs made the gap obvious, and the list of late-summer plants came from them. Cutting back in March, and what the hollow stems were holdinghttps://zortixus.com/2025/cutting-back-march-hollow-stems/2025-03-01T09:00:00ZLeaving the border standing through its first winter, then cutting it down on the first dry weekend of March: what overwintered in the stems, how much came off, and what went on. Planting the first thirty-one plants into a border I had just drawnhttps://zortixus.com/2024/planting-first-thirty-one/2024-09-22T09:00:00ZThe first planting, from a graph-paper plan: how the plan was made, what went in, the spacing I used, and the first thing I got wrong before the plants were even out of their pots. Clearing the fence border: couch grass, a buried path and a wheelbarrow of rubblehttps://zortixus.com/2024/clearing-couch-grass-buried-path/2024-06-15T09:00:00ZThe first weekends on the border before anything could be planned: what was under the weeds, how the couch grass was dealt with, and the sun-hours survey that decided where things would go.