I accomplished a fair amount over the weekend, but didn’t photograph most of it because it was just cleaning out dead stuff from flowerbeds and weeding. Jesus H Christ, what a lot of dandelions we’ve got. At least I can tell the soil is acidic!
Yes, I took another picture of the moss. It’s so pretty in spring because the weather is cooler and damp; it’ll manage through summer, but spring is when it really shines. I also pulled a crapton of algae out of the pond yesterday, and threw in half a grocery bag of frogbit that I’d taken out of the piranhas’ tank. Little as they are, they had nowhere else to swim, and although it’s early and the frogbit still might die from cold, it’s not like I don’t have more; I’m having trouble finding a place to feed Cliffie! I didn’t take a picture of the frogbit because it’s literally thrown in, and the roots are still floating, and the plants on their sides. They’ll sort it out after they’ve been free-floating for a while; plants know that the sunny side is up, and roots go down.
I saw the first non-overwintering as an adult flutter-guy of the year! He didn’t let me close, but he looked so fresh I think it had to be his birthday. I love Red Admirals!
Bluebells are a little past their peak, but still beautiful.
Canada bloodroot bloom. I had a few others, but forgot to photograph them before they were gone.
My impulse buy azalea ended up in Sarah-Flah’s Giant No-Mow Garden. I thought I’d found a good spot, but it turned out that I’d already planted butterfly weed there. Whew—glad I didn’t accidentally dig that up, and I hope I didn’t damage it!
On Sunday, I went through my seeds and discovered that I did have enough low-growing stuff to plant the little bed around the baby dogwood. I kept the packets so I’d remember what I put there, but don’t have them ATM. I know I had alyssium ‘Royal Carpet’, and baby’s breath, and dwarf bachelor’s button, and heliopsis ‘Summer Sun’. Didn’t have room for borage (dammit).
