22 May: another planting day

Sunday, 22 May 2022

At home

I had another planting day.

Uh oh I did not read the last line till now.

This just arrived by mail two days ago.

But what is this?

My helper…

There’s a new veratrum over there but I forgot to photograph the tag and it’s too hard to get back.

I may be able to detail this area soon.

Bogsy Wood beds need weeding.

my new Rhodendron sinogrande

I then had to water all the pots for the first time, after which I was exhausted but then suddenly got a second wind and weeded some grassy areas from seven to eight thirty. All that grass came out of two patches of irises. I swear that this year, as soon as it blooms if not before, that Lousina Iris ‘Black Gamecock’ will come out from under the contested filbert. It could be a much better garden bed. Perhaps I will limb up the contorted filbert like a photo in the wonderful book I recently read.

Enkianthus

In the back garden

In the evening, we watched two episodes of Escape to the Country, a British home buying quest with a plot simple enough to enable me to write plant tags while watching. I had help indoors, too.

Things are on the floor because cats knock them off the tables.