I got up at 5:30 on Saturday morning, and by 6:00, I was laying down corrugated. Good thing, since by 10:00, it was HOT, and if I’d only just started, I wouldn’t have got anything useful done. As it was, I worked until 1:30; until I ran out of mulch. Still not even close to done, but a damned sight better than it was.

Flamenco Orange is very pretty, though not much different from Salsa Red, if you ask me.

I was watering the Trail of Tears bed when I discovered I had an assistant!

I found her again, just as it was getting dark. I don’t know whether she’s digging to get cool, feel safe, or deposit eggs. Whatever the reason, she’s welcome.

The sunflower I captioned “Life will find a way” because it’s rooted in a crevice on an osage-orange tree certainly has; it’s about to bloom!

Speaking of bloom…my elderberry did bloom after all! Not many, but considering how many things have eaten it this year, I’ll take what I can get!

Another (surprising) bloom…caladium in the pond.

Pretty caladium beside the pond. No blooms yet. Hell, one pot doesn’t even have leaves yet!

Newly eclosed cicada by the pond.

P and I went to Buchheit yesterday and got 22 more bags of mulch. It was too late, too hot, and I was too busy to get it all down, but I’d got up early and laid some corrugated, and was able to get 6 more bags down yesterday. I’m a long way from finished, but making progress!

Crocosmia, just because it’s so pretty.

First bloom from a new Grey Stick!