It still doesn’t really look like anything, and I ended up filling the top part because otherwise, I’d need another ton of rock that I can’t afford at the moment, but the actual pond part is 2′ deep, and has a little divot at one end for debris to collect (in theory, at least).

Osage-orange trees suck. Oh my GAWD the roots.

I filled in the stair-step area because if I’d done it the way I wanted–so that the rocks were visible slightly below the surface of the water–I’d have needed a lot more rock than I have already. It cost me $370 to get the rock and four little bags of trapp, and the trapp was only a few bucks a bag.

After my spoon and I had finished with half a Sugar Baby watermelon, I put it out for the Banditos. I left a fair bit of pink on it, but they certainly didn’t!

No thanks to the baking heat and lack of rain, and big thanks to me and a soaker hose, I think at least one of the lobelia may bloom for me this year. There are others that are starting to “lift” above the rosette, but this one actually looks like it may bloom.

We need rain. This is in a shady spot…that’s sad.

The next ones are from a few days ago, but there wasn’t enough to inspire me to post.

The burgundy gaillardia bloomed this year, and if my track record with potted gaillardia is anything by which to judge, this might be the only photo I ever have of it.

“Tall” garden phlox bloomed, or at least one did. They probably would actually be tall if Charlotte hadn’t neatly cropped both of them nearly to the ground this spring.

Just a pretty sunflower the birds planted in the little bed with the columbine over by Sarah-Flah’s garden.