Once again, either due to laziness or being too busy, or too hot, or whatever, I’m playing catch-up again!

After seeing orioles at the feeder, I went out and bought them a jelly feeder, and expensive BirdBerry jelly…virtually guaranteeing that I will never again see an oriole (and so far, I have not!)

I gave up on seeds (though I do have half a dozen microscopic grass sprigs now) and bought Northern Sea Oats plants from J at EW. Great plants, and he packages them very, very well, but I was hot and irritable after work, and the soil is not great there, so for whatever it’s worth, I planted them. We’ll see how that goes.

Missouri sundrops are doing well on the southeast side.

Tornado honeysuckle seems to be making up for the aphid attack that ruined its blooms last year.

Partridge pea seeds didn’t look great when I planted them (they started to get mould during cold stratification), but at least some of them were still viable.

Water hyacinth blooms again. I know…I don’t get credit for theses ones, but I still think they’re pretty.

I got Christmas fern (and common milkweed) from G on EB. They look kind of sad above ground, but the roots are nice and healthy, so hopefully they’ll do well.

I didn’t take pictures of the milkweed because it was rootstock, and also because I’m not holding out a lot of hope. I think it was Sunday when I doused random spots with bacterial fungicide, and when I planted the rootstock, I doused the ground with more of the fungicide. I found an affected leaf on the swamp milkweed, too, so I’m also going to drown everything green with sulphur fungicide. Whether it’ll be enough or not, I don’t know, but I think that just in case, I’ll throw a few cosmos seeds into the milkweed bed so it doesn’t look nekkid like it did last year if I’m not able to get the fungus under control. I know those goddamned oleander aphids caused it; may the little yellow bastards rot in whatever hell they came from.