Actually, these are flowers because I forgot to take a picture and now it’s too dark. I’ll take one in the morning. I went at lunch and got 10 bags of paver base, which won’t be enough, but was quite enough for HK to carry. Again, it started raining just as I got home. I waited until it was just light rain, then started hauling gravel/clay from Sarah-Flah’s garden leftovers. I got most of it, put it in the patio reclamation spot, then stomped it down a bit to get as much air out as I could. Like walking in quicksand, but the time to compact soil is when it’s wet, and that gravel wasn’t going to shovel itself, rain or no rain.

I’ll put a picture here in the morning. There…big, ugly hole with wet, footprinted clay/gravel.

In the meantime, here’s crocosmia, getting closer.

Spotted bee balm. I love this stuff!

I’d thought all the red dogwood trees at Buchheit had found homes, but this little guy didn’t. It looked sad that nobody had picked it, and they were 40% off, so even though I’ve spent way too much already, I gave it a home. If the ground ever reaches a point where it isn’t sodden, I’ll get this poor little dude’s roots in the dirt.