Saturday in the Garden

I spent a pleasant day in the garden yesterday and am slightly sore because it.
But it was well worth the aches.  I am trying to bring more variety 
to the garden; I love my daylilies, but am getting tired of foliage.
My daughter and I spent several hours adding my newest arrivals 
(Thank you Claire!) to just the right spot and scratching up over 
exuberant volunteers (teasel mostly, the nigella finds new homes and 
the johnny jump ups we leave alone; they'll go dormant soon enough).

I've been tucking hen's and chick's in the rocks that make up my 
raised beds, and adding low growing sedums if there is room for them 
to drape over the rocks. All the rocks edging my beds are the rocks 
dug up while hand digging the beds; ok a few required levers or the 
chain attached to the truck.

In bloom:
Basket of Gold and Basket of Apricot alyssums (ok it was supposed to 
be apricot but is more a pale orange yellow

Willow leaf amsonia - the buds are just hovering on the edge of opening

Veronica Gentianiodes - (that's what the tag says) - I got it last 
fall for a whole fifty cents. It is lovely - spikes of white flowers 
striped with blue - and more a verbascum shaped flower. Time to break 
out the camera. Lovely....

Various euphorbias are blooming in their electric yellows.

My irises are just spiking - I have several dwarves that are locally 
hybridized, my favorite is white with green stripes.

Happy Mothers Day to all,
Cheryl

-- 
Cheryl Isaak
Londonderry, NH
AHS Region 4, USDA Zone 4B/5A
growing, stitching and reading in NH

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