New Plants.

6-27-17 VERMONT: I planted yesterday—three roses, Rosa rugosa, one of them ‘Alba’, and the other two pink, and two butterfly weed, Asclepias incarnata ‘Ice Ballet’. The Asclepias went on the north end of the pond bank in full sun, and the roses along the pasture fence near the small barn and the other roses. That part of the fence is behind a stonewall, and I dug up a lot of rocks while planting the roses, the rocks will get replaced on the wall.

After I planted, we got an hour of so of rain, and today it’s raining again. I did a little weeding this morning before it turned wet. These last two days were cool, in the sixties, we needed jackets in the evening.

New blooms: stonecrop sedum, red peony, lychnis.


Mustard and Catsup or goldfinch and purple finch. Sorry the focus isn't quite sharp, but that is a very red bird.

Speaking of red, red peony.

Judy's pumpkin cart with flowers.

The red peonies, above, join their pink cousins below.

A not bad sunset.