I didn’t take pictures because I didn’t quite finish the mulch, but I cleaned and seeded the bare spots in the Honeysuckle Horseshoe yesterday. I put in scarlet sage, purple coneflower, plains coreopsis, golden wave coreopsis, dwarf cosmos  (looks like Bright Lights, but short), dwarf cosmos Ladybird Lemon…something else, I think, and a few experimental lobelia cardinalis that probably won’t survive. I ordered a 7′ x 10′ pond liner for lobelia cardinalis that I hope will survive, but that bed isn’t even dug yet.

When I got home from work on Friday, I finished cleaning the grass roots out of the cosmos bed, but my tiller needs a new gearbox that hasn’t yet arrived, so that’s not finished, either. Oh, well. I’m making progress in Bistro 2015, though it’s raining today, so I won’t accomplish anything outside.

Catching up on a few photos…

Borage, taken Thursday after work. Borage does not fuck around.

Marjorams. Yes, I know it’s just marjoram, but they’re such cute little dudes.

When I was dumping debris from the Honeysuckle Horseshoe, I found this little guy. I wonder whether anyone actually plants tuliptrees, or whether they just spontaneously appear as seedlings in areas where no mature ones are growing, and people take pity on them because they’re tiny and cute. I haven’t decided whether to move this one to a better spot, or just keep the area free of junk vegetation and weeds, and leave it where it decided to grow.

Three out of five hardy hibiscus are leafing out so far. I hope they all survived; I adore hibiscus, and especially the ones that I don’t have to baby.

My native hibiscus doesn’t have any leaves yet, but the seed pods I scattered around it last fall have produced some seedlings. I collected a few to plant in the rain garden with lobelia and mallow, too.

This is the Honeysuckle Horseshoe as of 0650h on Sunday. Crap shot because I stood on the patio out of the rain, but it’s documented, which will do for now. I hope all of the penstemon Husker Red that I seeded last year from 544 seeds I collected will bloom!