The dogs and I just came in from our 3rd trip outside today--the weather is so beautiful! While I was out there, I took another shot of the columbines--they show up better in semi-shade, I think.



See the little heuchera down there in the bottom right corner? Pewter Veil, I think it is, though I wouldn't bet money on it. I just moved it. It clearly wasn't very happy there. I may have killed it. It acted like it wanted to split into three different little plants, so--I split it into three different little plants. I'll just have to keep them well-watered and see how it goes. It's very pretty, so I hope it will like its new spot and grow big and beautiful.




Here's another picture of the corner with the brunnera and etc. The one on the right is Jack Frost and the one on the left is Looking Glass. Jack Frost blooms better, but I like the almost solid white leaves of Looking Glass better, so they're both worth having. Off to the left of Looking Glass, at the edge of the picture, are a few green-and-white leaves that are clearly brunnera. I don't know if they'll whiten up later, or if they're a cross of Looking Glass and Jack Frost, or what the deal is, so for now I'm just watching it to see what it will do. The blue hostas have come up in little clumps, and I'm considering seeing if I can split them up and move them slightly apart so they hog a little more space from the ginger. You can't see it in this picture, but the astilbe to the right of Jack Frost has smaller, finer-cut leaves than the one you can see at the foot of the tree. I'm pretty sure that one is a white one, but now I'm wondering what the other one is. Stay tuned for bloom-time, I guess!

I asked Taenzer to pose and show you how enthusiastic the German iris is this year. It's even more astounding if you consider that this iris lived in a tiny little inch-and-a-half plastic pot and was about half the size of my little finger for two or three years (and how it survived I do not know). It was strangling the life out of a daylily, which I just moved to what I hope will be a better position for it. It's got 7 or 8 stalks of flowers with 2 or 3 buds each, which isn't spectacular, but I'm delighted. And I think I might plant some silvery dichondra at the end of the planter so it can spill over and trail off into the grass.

Actually, it's strangling the life out of two daylilies--you can see the remaining one there to the left of the iris. Since it's getting more sun, I thought I'd leave that one and see how it does.