Finally! It was hot and humid, the brace bands were hard to bend and so was the wire, but four months of work and delays is finally over. I have the flowerbed I envisioned last October. It’s not perfect–they pushed the trellis down into the ground when they moved it, and that honeysuckle does not want to turn–but it looks fine for now and I can try twisting it next spring when the ground is soft.

I think this is one of the columbine that I’d planted under the honeysuckle last year. With all the grass gone now, it’s getting some light. Its bloom time is past, but I’ll leave it anyway.

Blooms coming in on one of my baby hardy hibiscus!

Microscopic grass! Only a little, but more than I had. I’ll take what I can get when daytime temperatures are in the 90s.