I was busy watering and forgot to take a photo until after dark, but I got 0.8 tons of rock delivered this afternoon. This had better be enough to finish!

Even my drought tolerant plants were looking sad, so with nothing but hot and dry in the forecast for the next week or two, I decided to water a bit. I’ve been very careful to keep the lobelia cardinalis wet enough in the swamp bed, and it’s doing fine. Imagine my surprise at finding two (albeit a bit scruffy) of them in the Honeysuckle Horseshoe that I never water! I forget whether I planted the seeds last year or this year, but a couple of them grew! I doubt they’ll spread because that’s a pretty dry bed, but at least they exist!

My first New England aster. Only one plant, and not in a great spot for its height, but hopefully it’ll spread.

The pale, sad-looking scarlet pumpernickel that suffered in the pot seems happier here. It’s at least green, and has a few buds. I won’t use that pot for scarlet salvia again; the other ones planted later are great in the bigger pot, but the one that held this is just too small.