What? It’s a word.

It rained all of Saturday morning, but that didn’t stop me from getting all of my coneflowers planted, and also the Wave ‘toonyas I’d bought just before Memorial Day weekend and didn’t get planted!

When I got home from work on Friday, my blue mistflower was waiting for me. It was bare root, so it couldn’t wait for long, even though it’s technically a weed, and a tough plant. I planted most of it over in Sarah-Flah’s Giant Garden (hope I don’t regret that). I was hot and tired, so I didn’t do all of it.

Saturday, it rained steadily all morning, but stopped in the afternoon, so I was able to get the rest of my mistflower planted, and the ‘toonyas. I didn’t take photos of either one, though.

I also decided to bite the bullet and tidy up the fallen coreopsis and the Dutchman’s pipe that is trying to take over. I’d pulled down the Flava honeysuckle that was actually japonica (I checked with the seller and she said their supplier pawned off japonica as flava, but she apologised and said she’ll get me some flava), so I had an extra trellis, which I gave to the Dutchman’s pipe. I thought it was dead, but nope…just trying to strangle everything else!

Later on Saturday, the mail came with my mini cattails, which I potted in dirt from down by my baby pines.

I sunk them in the pond, atop an overturned pot. I’ll need to change those to milk crates to allow water circulation, but they’re okay for now.

On Sunday, I started early and got all of the rest planted. Possibly a little too close together, but I’ve just about had it with pulling up fucking crabgrass, so too damned bad.

C’s mini cattails are not fucking around. One week after potting, and…

Just because it’s pretty. I forget what penstemon this is, but I like it!

I had an assistant on Sunday while I was planting. He sat on my hand for a good 20 minutes!

Baby spined soldier bug found himself a snack. Not very clear, but it was over by the pond, and the sun was going down.

Onje was hunting birds and fell asleep. He thinks they can’t see his bright orange and white ass in 4″ of green clover. 🙂

Bird pool, just because the splashing water is pretty in the sun.

We had to wait until Sunday to mow the yard, but it’s still nice even if I didn’t have time to just sit and admire our hard work.

EDIT: When I got home from work, the last thing I wanted to see was anything that needed to go in the ground, but two bunches of the anise hyssop were kind of dry, and all three looked a bit battered, so I didn’t make them wait. Hopefully, these will do better than all the seeds I’ve planted because that’s netted me only a few plants, and I just love this stuff!