My accomplishments after work yesterday were few, but I still have photos.  A little Zelus friend in the Jerusalem artichoke.  First Husker Red blooms.  Borage, not fucking around.  Pink penstemon.  Purple on the other side.  Pink-urple balm of bees.  Purple penstemon in Sarah-Flah’s Giant No-Mow bed. 

I worked hard all weekend, and I do have a lot of photos, but the vast majority are not of what I did…if that makes any sense. One of the new Echinacea paradoxa has a little flower bud on it. Bad light, bad photo, but considering how little time it’s been in its location, I’ll […]

C gave me this iris last year (I think), but it didn’t bloom because it was newly planted. This year it bloomed, but it looks more like a native blue flag than a Japanese to me. I’d prefer the blue flag, of course, but whatever iris it is, it’s certainly a pretty one! 

My big accomplishment yesterday after work was putting down more soil under one shepherd’s hook, and putting some mulch out front.  This beautiful little girl had a bigger accomplishment: she eclosed! There’s one chrysalis left, but it looks very dark, and I don’t think it’s inhabitant made it. Four healthy out of six isn’t too […]

After work yesterday, I finally saw a MLB that I could swear was one. AN adult male, drinking like a little camel on the feeder out front. I couldn’t get a picture because I didn’t want to scare him, but I saw him, and that’s good enough!  Not a MLB, but pretty. Salvia…’May Night’? 

It rained most of the weekend; so much that the yard was soup, and it was very muddy when I finally broke down and cleaned the goddamned hairy bittercress out of the cosmos bed. When I got it cleared out, I discovered that I had one seedling. One. I had saved some seeds, but not […]