It was hot in the sun, so I certainly didn’t feel like digging grass out of the NoMo flowerbed, but it was lovely in the shade, so I comprised. I didn’t do any heavy work, but I did do a little. This morning, I pruned the Tornado Honeysuckle, and found several pieces near the ground that were rooted. I stuck them in a bucket of water, and planted some random seeds. I planted “yellow flowers” (Heliopsis helianthoides) and what I’ll assume were Rudbeckia that had been in the orange bucket on the patio all winter. Also swamp milkweed that I’d intended to put in NoMo, but they didn’t look so hot, so I just threw them in the milkweed bed. I planted agastache in several spots, including where the “fancy” blue agastache let me down. That’s the end of the fancy ones for me; from now on, only the sturdy native stuff. I also planted some mystery flowers that C had given me; she didn’t tell me what they were, and I didn’t ask. I didn’t take photos because there’s nothing to see, but the old lady’s clematis is definitely happier in the Bee Happy bed on the southwest corner of the house than it was on the northeast side, under the shade of the osage-orange and behind the garage. (WTF was she thinking!?)

Since I couldn’t stand the thought of not having pots sitting on the patio (HA!) , I potted the Tornado Honeysuckle cuttings. Most of them will go on the fence line to replace those that died. Once their roots get stronger, of course,  though they were pretty good for being rooted under only bark mulch atop weed barrier.