I finally got around to cleaning out the south side flowerbed, but didn’t bother to take a picture because I was too tired, and also because it looks like shit ATM, and will until I find my box of seeds, and the flowers grow in (and that goddamned hairy bittercress dies off). Anyway, the weekend was not lost!

Dogwood out front in full bloom. We actually got some rain last summer, so it was able to set fruit and did quite well.

Mason bee, possibly Osmia cornifrons or Osmia taurus. I got her when she’d just awakened, so she was still sort of sluggish. Otherwise, they don’t stay still for more than a nanosecond.

Yellow house is getting full!

They’re working on the blue house, but only a few tubes are completely filled.

The mason bee houses are so busy that they actually kind of sound like a honeybee hive.

Here they are just before the sun was all the way down, looking for empty chambers to sleep.

These are not only Canadian Columbine that planted themselves on the patio in a crevice, they’re going to be the first ones to bloom. They may look pretty and delicate, but these are tough little flowers!

Today, I cleaned out the small flowerbed out front, and since I couldn’t find my leftover scarlet salvia seeds (I’m sure I have some…I think?), I stuck a few Rose of Sharon suckers in between the weigela. I dunno. Maybe I’ll hate them. We’ll see. They were free (and unwanted where they were growing).

I sat by the pond for a little while because it was so nice outside. I didn’t see S’prize; I think he didn’t make it through the winter. Bully got very big, though, and the birdbath/brook look nice since I pressure washed the gunk out. Not sure how many of those jewelweed seedlings will survive the summer, but they sure fling their seeds because there are even a couple in with the Virginia Snakeroot, and that’s a pretty fair distance for a plant to fling its seeds!