Remember in grade school how you would make little cones of colored construction paper, staple paper handles on them, and put flowers for your mom in them? Or am I showing my age? And in the "good old days," I guess you went around and left little posies on your neighbors' doorsteps. Pretty custom, from days when neighbors all knew each other, and grew flowers.
Well. Onward. Garden report today! Check these out:
Brunnera: From bright silver new leaves 
To freeze damage
To glory
That's Jack Frost on the bottom, and Looking Glass above it, surrounded by shiny green European ginger. The grassy stuff to the right is chionodoxa, which will estivate pretty soon and leave a big blank spot; that's where I want some kind of pretty, feathery green ground cover. I'm thinking maybe dwarf goatsbeard, which I adore, or possibly astilbe chinensis Pumila, depending what I can find locally. Also visible is a blue columbine, a striped hosta (can't rememer the variety), and the main bed of European ginger at the base of the ash tree. There are some blue hosta coming up with the brunnera, but I didn't catch them in this picture. Also to the left of the striped hosta is a peony.
Monster hosta: Beginnings
Unfolding
I think this gives you an idea of how BIG that hosta is! Fronted by lamium Beacon Silver, with heuchera Pewter (I think) on either side. You can also see blue columbine, ferns, and vinca, and if you look real hard off to the right of the tree trunk, you can see the striped hosta from the brunnera picture above.
From mud pit
to possibility
To YIPPEE, WE CAN USE THE PUPPY PEN THIS WEEKEND!
Yeah, it's still a bit scraggly, and I'll be babying it like crazy--fertilizer, hand-weeding, an inch of water every 10 days or so. I'm going to apply the first dose of fertilizer tomorrow, and probably put the two new tunnels and the teeter out Friday evening. I'm gong to have such happy doggies--can't wait!!
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