I can make Sarah Jane’s garden now. PL came and removed the gravel, then put in topsoil.

They levelled it, but kind of didn’t notice the little Nanho Blue butterfly bush. They ran over it with the skid steer, and then buried it. Took me a few minutes to find its remains; there’s nothing left above ground, but maybe it’ll recover. The roots should be okay, and it’s still early enough in the season that it may grow. I might actually move it, since they mashed the poor thing anyway. They also knocked over my poor, put-upon forsythias, but I just straightened those.

While they were working, I obviously should have been watching, but I was working, too. I got a pair of hedge shears at lunch today, and cleaned up out front.

Now for some pretty things that didn’t get run over by a skid steer.

Scarlet pumpernickel doesn’t waste ANY time when it’s put in potting soil! I planted these…Saturday (maaaaybe Sunday).

Now this is a double bloom coreopsis!

It was nearly dark when PL came back and pulled out those two stupid trees out front that just sat there, taking up space and doing no good whatsoever. Hooked a chain on the bucket of the skid steer and yanked ’em out. I’m putting in a dogwood…assuming I can figure out how to get one into HK! 🙂