When I got home yesterday, I had 8 nice purple coneflower plants, and a stupid little orange card that says I have to sign for my plants from Hirts. Yay. I blistered the seller for it, but it wasn’t them; USPS fucked up (surprise). Anyway, I planted 5 of the coneflowers in the Honeysuckle Horseshoe where the sweet william grows thick; when it’s cut back after blooming, it leaves low spots with no flowers. The last 3 I put in Sarah-Flah’s garden. They look a bit droopy, but the root systems are healthy, and they’ll perk up. I’d look droopy after 3 days in the mail, too.

Otherwise, I accomplished little yesterday, but flowers did, and I found a couple of friends.

Butterfly weed grown from seed this spring.

I think this is Plum Crazy, but I can’t swear to it until it opens.

My poor, put-upon, bug-eaten, deer-munched, under-sunlit hollyhock.

I was losing daylight, but these zinnias are truly dwarf. Planted late, maybe 4″ tall, with tiny flowers. Heh.

Again, poor light, but I found this lady Common Whitetail when she was getting ready for bed. I think she was reading, and I interrupted.

Bad light, tiny subject. A baby spined assassin bug. Cute!

I found a bunch of these caterpillars on Tuesday evening; they’re on coneflower, and I think they’re Silvery Checkerspot.

I lost them last night, but found one on my brand new coneflower, so the rest may be in there somewhere.