The entire weekend was like a fucking blast furnace, and on top of it all, our A/C decided to crap out on Sunday afternoon. Fortunately, P found someone to fix it right away, and though they charge $115/hr plus parts for emergency service on OT, it was totally worth it!

I did virtually nothing after work on Friday because it was too hot for me to give a rat’s arse. On Saturday, I was up and dressed early, and by 0930h, I had all of the plants in the ground with the exception of the Tornado Honeysuckle cuttings.

I put the two Sombrero ‘Lemon Yellow’ coneflowers and the four ‘Goldsturm’ Rudbeckia in with the orange/red/white/yellow coneflowers I’d planted last week. Lazy, yes, but it was fucking hot, and frankly, I’m sick to death of digging and pulling up crabgrass that has roots in the Southern Hemisphere, especially now that the ground is hard and dry.

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The two little ‘Baby Sun’ tickseed went over where I foolishly put some hyacinth bulbs and surprise lily bulbs last fall, which, ATM, look like shit. I did put a few Scarlet Pumpernickel seeds in there this spring, but they didn’t amount to much, so it still looks like shit, and the tickseed will at least fill it in a bit and give it some colour.

My two ‘Kodiak Orange’ Diervilla arrived on Friday. Small, and the roots were a bit cramped in the pots, but they packaged them well, and the plants seemed to make the trip okay. I put them in the back part of Sarah-Flah’s Giant Flowerbed.

I didn’t take pictures because I desperately need to weed that goddamned fence line, but I was up early again yesterday, and got all eight of the honeysuckle cuttings planted in bare spots along the fence. I needed only six to fill in, so I doubled up on a couple with small ones.

I definitely got my $9.99 out of this flowering tobacco. I bought it as a hanging plant last spring. It hung over by the Sarah-Flah MLB feeder until it stopped blooming because it was too crowded in that pot. I put it in a larger pot, and it bloomed until frost. I left the pot out all winter because I’m lazy in fall (don’t particularly want to think about everything being brown and dead in winter), and this spring, I noticed seedlings in the pot. I figured they were weeds, or something else in the Honeysuckle Horseshoe, but nope…exactly what was in the pot last year. Blooming nicely, and if they stop, I’ll put them in a larger pot and see whether they’ll reseed themselves again!

This turned up on the southern end of the Honeysuckle Horseshoe, and although it looked familiar, I couldn’t quite place it, but I think it may be lavender. All of the (expensive, potted) lavender that I planted in the Bee Happy bed last year didn’t survive the winter, but I’m sure at some point in time, I’ve thrown lavender seeds into this bed (Hell, I’ve thrown just about every native/non-invasive non-native flower seed known to the free world in this bed), but nothing ever grew. Anyway, we’ll see whether it is indeed lavender; I don’t recall seeing it last year, so I’ll assume it’s new this year, and won’t bloom until next, assuming it doesn’t die over the winter. Assuming it’s lavender. 🙂

This is a Southern Leopard frog, sitting on a rock at the edge of the pond. Cletus is a Southern Leopard frog. This is not Cletus. This little dude is smaller than Cletus…but just as welcome.

I was too lazy to look up this huge moth that I found on the outside of the door, but he’s cool-looking.