It was laundry day, and since it’s supposed to rain much of the week, I wanted to get my bulbs and asters (and one mum!) in the ground. I also needed to blow leaves off the patio and skim the pond, and I needed a nap because I couldn’t sleep last night, so I didn’t make any bird roost hoce progress today.

The borage that seeded itself after all the rain in June basically killed it off did get to bloom after all. I’ll plant borage next year, but I think I’ll maybe seed it thinner. It’s prickly and itchy, and hard to thin. Anyway, I’m glad it got to flower.

I ended up just sticking the asters in near the Sweet Tea honeysuckle. I’m not sure what will eventually happen there, but they’ll get sun and drainage. Hell, I don’t even know for sure what kind of asters they are. I think they’re the dark pink double blooms that Buchheit got in after the Believer purple and Hazy Pink sold out, but can’t swear to it. Hopefully I’ll see next fall!

This is what I get for not paying attention. What I looked at as a double bloom aster is actually a pink mum. I’m not a huge fan, but a Monarch used this one for nectar, so it’s already worth the three bucks. I broke more off it when I planted it in the Bee Happy bed, but it’s the roots that matter anyway. It is pretty, too, and next year, it won’t be broken. Poor little guy needed a home as badly as the asters.

I ran the sprinkler yesterday so I could plant my Giant Mixed croci. I did get them all in the ground, and just for the hell of it, I pulled out some of the crabgrass and threw on some of the ridiculously expensive grass seed I’d got when I first built this area up. Might not be any good, but it’s not like crabgrass won’t fill in the bare spot if it’s not.

They’re fading, but still the same beautiful, clear red. I really hope it survives the winter.

I hope these don’t. I hope every one of them dies miserably. I was too lazy to make insecticidal soap, though. I might this week, just to get even for all the times I couldn’t spray these little bastards when I had Monarch cats. Muahaha!