Uh, nope. Not today. Ibuprophen will be my best friend tonight! I forgot how much work those lilies are. The orange ones that I'm always trying to get rid of sit just below the surface - they're so easy compared to these. I wonder why the difference? Or, maybe I wouldn't have to plant these that deep either??

They are ALOT of hard work, indeed! BRAVO!!!

I gotta date with BenGay!

Oh, Susan
what did you plant today?

I dug up a large shrub to make my new butterfly garden. I planted a red butterfly bush, trimed miscantheus, raked leaves, pulled up vines, potted seedlings, went grocery shopping.

I was going to fill in the hole with dirt and I saw something weird. It was Black and Fuzzy. I tried to help him out of the hole and he decided to play dead. So I decided to wait till tomorrow to fill in the hole. Better turn the motion light back on, just my luck my DH will fall in the hole.


--This is him trying to get out of hole.

--This is him playing dead.

Wow, you did alot today!
Grocery shopping alone tires me out!

He sure is a cutie. Bet they could ID him on the butterfly forum.

Looks like a woolly bear.

Cute!

If you think he might be a Giant Leopard Moth, maybe you should keep him. They like to eat weeds. ...pretty, too.

Well he sure does!!

Thanks Janice!

Thanks chelle, great idea. He can hang-out in the yard, I just named him woolly bear.

Can I play????

Yesterday I carried cobblestones and made a border of them.
I relocated the hyacinths that had just stopped blooming.
Moved a veronica from pot to ground.
Moved some ajuga and a sedum from ground to pot to take to a friend.
Pulled the drumstick allium out of my sempervivum pot (Kitty is buried in there).
Harvested a stray egyption onion to put in the soup.

Today I walked around and wondered at all the good stuff going on out there.
I see MUCH improvement and I can see my plans really beginning to come together.


Then I puttered at the flat border rocks, plotting another heavy day for tomorrow.

I took pictures once a week last year, to document what happens when.
Then we had no winter and everything got ahead by FIVE weeks... Now I
don't know what to expect or when!

Critter, you did alot!
Love cobblestones..a favorite!

As usual, my head had a lot of fun, but my back did not!

crittergarden said:

I took pictures once a week last year, to document what happens when.
Then we had no winter and everything got ahead by FIVE weeks... Now I
don't know what to expect or when!

Me, either. I'm as confused as the plants. I think perhaps the roses will begin blooming about the same time as the apples this year...strange. One of my forsythia is still blooming as well - really weird since I can't recall them ever blooming for longer than a week or so in the past.

Yes, they are heavy!

Very heavy, I put some around my corner garden the year before. They look great. I love them!

pretty!

You can see some of them here.

Oh, that looks, Fantastic, Susan!!

Yes, that looks very, very nice.