We've been seeing a Black Swallowtail around here lately. Gorgeous!
I did projects this morning! I had two of my new daylilies that had been probably stepped on by a cat just as their new growth was starting, breaking it off. Then, opportunistic eaters came and ate. I moved one back to the containers to nurse it; the other I only protected where it was because it was not that bad. I took two clear plastic paint can liners we had a stack of and cut the bottom off to make sleeves. I also put shortened stakes around the vulnerable dls.
Anyway, this morning the one that was the worst damaged I moved back to the bed and set up a little recovery area:
Then, I put the kale seedlings into the vacated space in the container. They were outgrowing their seedling pots but they are still very teeny. Most of them do have two true leaves but they had to be moved now or they would languish; those little containers get too hot.
Then, I transplanted about ten coneflower starts into the Coneflower Forest section, and watered them in. There is a mature coneflower and a black eyed susan in the middle so the new forest is in two sections sort of:
(Some of those were already there.) Then, I rested under the big old crapemyrtle tree:
One of the coneflower starts, a big established one, had been at the border of Hannah's Corner under this rose which is doing nicely now I've given it a bit of attention:
That's the third of three blooms it's offered, since I did the work over there. Anyway, the coneflower was right under it at the edge, so it needed to be moved.
