Friday after work, I planted my American mountain-ash along the northwest side. They’re just sticks, and I doubt more than one will live, but there they are, finally in the ground and mulched.

Yesterday morning, I planted the serviceberry on the southwest side, in the “naturalised border” that currently contains lots of weeds in addition to the poke berry and boneset that I actually want there.

I weeded the fence line a bit in the afternoon, but I’m still not done. Lost quite a few honeysuckle last winter, but some survived. Almost as an afterthought, I planted the five autumn sage ‘Radio Red’ that I bought at Buchheit after work on Friday. They’re perennial, but I don’t know; some sources say zone 7 and others say zone 6. I probably should have put them on the south side, but I want to watch the MLBs. They were $3 each on sale, and I got five, so as long as they live this summer, I got my money out of them.

I still have five Mesa Yellow gaillardia to plant (replacing the red ones that didn’t survive the winter), and two astilbe to fill in the patio bed.

The columbine blooms disappeared almost overnight, but I found new buds, so I deadheaded the seed pods before they could mature. A huge carpenter bee was happy there were a few blooms left.

More of my Virginia snakeroot survived than I’d thought!

Found a firefly larva while I was digging holes for the mountain-ash.

Old Kitteh has been going out tomcattin’ the past couple of nights, worrying P to death. I figure he knows it’s spring and he’s supposed to do that, even if he doesn’t remember why.