Today, I left at lunch to pick up the 8 remaining bags of mulch. I bought 4 more, and a flat of pink annual salvia fell into my cart. They had red, but it grows too tall, I think. If it’s coccinea, it does…I’ll have to check. I came home, scarfed leftover pizza, then went to work. I planted the butterfly weed seeds I cleaned last night, plus I cleaned the bloodflower milkweed that I’d saved, and scattered it here and there. There was more than I’d thought.

Milkweed bed is finished, and mulched. Colour difference: dry, damp, soaked.

My ankle was killing me, so I walked a bit in an effort to make it stop. Didn’t work, but my yellow honeysuckle looks good. Tornado Honeysuckle is coming along, too, but I’ll wait a bit because it looks sort of ratty.

Daffy-down-dillies.

Very determined tall bachelor’s button. Through a deep layer of pine bark mulch, plus weed barrier fabric over “meh” soil.

I planted the salvia in the Bee Happy bed. It’s only an annual, so it’s not like I had to commit to anything.

Rain the next two days, so I’ll be staying at work all day. I’m too tired to dig for a little while anyway.