Tuesday or Wednesday…I forget which, so I’m catching up for both. 🙂
Blue-fronted Dancer.

Pulled grass around the Tornado Honeysuckle. As evidenced by the presence of the flash and the darkness around it, I stayed out way too late to do it, but the cool of the evening is exactly when I feel like gardening.

First Grey Stick bloom! If the other two don’t soon get some sun, they won’t bloom much (if at all). Oh, Treeeeee Dude…. *ahem*

Skanny’s latest gift. Ew. Poor Skanny must be thinking that we’re the stupidest kittens alive to not have learned how to hunt our own moles after all the times he’s left dead ones on our cars for us.

I was all virtuous after work; I went to Buchheit to get mulch and the last two blocks for the Honeysuckle Horseshoe, but it turned out I was two bags short on the pine bark. On top of that, my stupid flowers decided to take a break, which means they have buds that have not yet bloomed, which means that I don’t really know how the whole thing is going to look, even though I’m very close to finished. Sigh.

Finally…phlox!
Pink:

Blurry red:

Yaaay! I shouldn’t be too excited  because they’ve been in the ground only a few days, and I had almost nothing to do with these blooms, but here’s the first hardy hibiscus. It’s ‘Midnight Marvel’, which is the one with the deep bronze foliage. It’s beautiful–I wish I were a hummingbird!

I know zinnias are dirt-common, but they’ll always be in my garden because they aren’t fussy about dirt, they grow fast, they bloom fast, blooms last for ages and come in many colours, and everything likes them. Unfortunately, that does include Japanese beetles, but I’ll happily lose a bloom if I must in order to squash those little bastards, and I kill every one I see. Anyway, I love the vivid orange of this one.

Bee balm. I planted lots, and I’m glad because there’s a very good reason it’s called bee balm. I watched a bunglebee stuff himself in every single bloom, drinking nectar. His fat arse barely fit, but he was determined!