I marked out the NoMo flowerbed this morning, and planted two Red Heart Althea, two Royal Red and one Black Knight butterfly bushes. I hated to cut down Grey Stick, but it didn’t make it. 🙁

Purple bee balm closer to the front.

More Veronica and a few Blue Hill Salvia in the Bee Happy bed.

Peppermint in Thug Life.

Just one tomato from C this year because the Mexico Midget seeded itself. I officially have no pots of anything waiting to be planted!

Canadian columbine is so pretty.

Just before I went for a nap, I corralled the water hyacinth and frogbit, and discovered I’m going to be…froggy gramma! These are on the roots of a water hyacinth, and they’ve been in the pond only a few days. I had to check because I couldn’t remember which was a string and which was a clump, but it’s frog eggs that are deposited in clumps, and toad eggs in strings. You GO, Cletus–your lovely (um…sure) song of, “Ur-ur-ur-ur” attracted a beautiful (and obviously fertile) lady frog.

After my nap, I cut some more water pickerel out of my little water garden and put it on the other side of the pond. Again, looks like crap because it has to be tethered until it decides to grow there, but hopefully that won’t take too long.

I repotted the long-suffering spider plant and put it in the pink pot I’ve had since last winter, then hung it on the cool stand I got at ALDI last week for ten bucks.

I hung the butterfly hoce and forgot to take a photo, but I also hung the Bee hoce on the huge honey locust tree by the creek. Largely bird-free, morning sun, mud in the creek, or leaves if they’re leafcutter bees instead of mason. I just want bees to live there.

Firefly heuchera, just because it’s pretty.