P came outside in the morning as I was having coffee on the patio, and he had my binoculars. He told me where to look, and at first, I thought I was seeing a dead groundhog. Dunno why I thought “dead”, but I did. Nope, not a groundhog, and very much alive!

Every time I’d walk by the Thunbergia (sp.?) I’d tell it, “Quit making so many goddamned leaves and BLOOM, willya!” Finally, it did.

Rosemallow seems to really like its little swamp. Actual leaves, and activity from one of the small ones; I think I inadvertently buried its leaf nodules (or whatever the hell those bumps that will sprout leaves might be called).

Just coreopsis because it’s very pretty.

I thought I’d bought all blue bachelors button because that’s what P likes, but some of them did not get that memo. This is a lovely shade of purple, though!

Bishop’s flower. Blooms do look like Queen Anne’s lace.

Giant ragweed, attempting to hide amongst the sunflowers. I’d already pulled up two or three, but missed this one until it was pretty big. Fuck ragweed.

Well, even if the eBay seller doesn’t get more ‘Tango’ agastache, these ones aren’t dead. They’ve got a long way to go to catch up, though; this one has the most and largest leaves of the three!