Another Perfect Weather Day

I was digging all day. Dividing Daylily which is now all the way through the Sun Gardens. I have a little bit left to put in along the Front House Garden. I am really enjoying the orange out the front windows so I am going to add the Orange Daylily there tomorrow. I have a plan for finishing the Front House Garden this year but it doesn't quite include the pink Peony in the middle of it all. Somehow I will have to work that in with yellow but I have not exactly figured out how. I am sure it will come to me by the time I have planted out that far. I am so excited to be getting things done outside finally. The weather has really taken a turn for the better for me here. Tomorrow, I will be planting all the new Iris and dividing some as well. I also got the 'Kabitan' moved into the concrete block and the wilted division beside it is the Lamium from Calgary. It is already standing up and looking great now as is the white blooming I put next to the block with 'Fire & Ice' planted in it. The last garden chore on my list for tomorrow is to spread more of the groundcovers through the Sun Gardens and Front House Garden. I am spreading the less invasive ones into spots throughout now that all of the patches I have are big enough to divide. I decided to leave the Orange Daylily in the Combine Garden and am only moving the patches out of the Nursery. The Combine Garden Daylily are in full bloom and since I waited so long to see that, I don't want to dig it up. I was moving it from there into more sun so it would bloom, seems like I don't need to move it now. I will plan the other plants in that garden around the two patches of Daylily.

Speedwell for Andrea

Andrea, my Speedwell is struggling in shade so it is just starting to bloom. This is an opening flower. I posted a photo of a bud with leaf at this link so you can compare that. I also put up a photo of my patch of Speedwell at this link in case that helps you identify what you have. Good luck and if you have any trouble, post a picture of what you have. If I don't know it, my friends Linda or Judy might.

A Note on Weeds

I can think of many, many reasons to not bother staying on top of weeds around here. For one thing, the fields come right up to the yard. For another, tall weeds provide shade for the dogs as well as some protection for the frogs. Today, another good reason popped up. If I pulled all the weeds, I wouldn't have seen this and this was worth seeing.

Delphinium Pale Colour Notes for Linda

I've been taking pictures and planting and digging and planting all day :) Thought I would post the pale colour delphinium that are blooming today. These have a bright cobalt blue edge when they are in bud but it lightens fast once they open. The back is an even lighter purple than the front. I am calling this one Nursery Pale Colour Pair. There is an even lighter version of this colour pair that I am calling Nursery Pale Purple because it has a wider purple stroke in the centre of the petal with a slimmer blue edge. The last in that area is the Nursery Light Blue which I would call a bright baby blue. It is different than the Front Light Blue which is a bright sky blue. Let me know if you want any seed in the Fall from any of these and I will mark them before they stop blooming. I have no idea how true they come from seed because mine have been self-seeding in the same spot forever and they are all mixed.

Waiting Out the Rain

Jake tried hard to wait while I was doing a health check on Linda's Allium patch but Jake is really no good at waiting so this Serenity Now pose did not last long. These days I can empathize with him about waiting things out, especially as today, in the early afternoon, rain clouds arrived and stayed until dark... bringing rain with them. I will not wish the rain away though because I do remember when it was dry. They are equally bad garden problems here. On the bright side, I found two wild rose growing along the bush edge at the front. Right where I planted them. Still exciting though because I have been planting them what seems like forever and although wild rose grows prolifically all over the bush edge, it never seems to want to grow where you actually plant it. I was delighted to see it is finally taking.