More New Plants.

6-29-22 VERMONT: It’s already getting dry again. The days have been pleasant and the nights cool, great except for lack of rain. I continue to be busy with chores. Today I did a pond treatments to both ponds, fertilized the tomatoes and herbs, pruned the viburnum by the dining room window, watered, walked around the pasture with Judy and the dogs, and it makes a full day, adding in the frequent rests.

Yesterday Addie was here and transplanted some of the hydrangeas near the driveway that were encroaching on the bed by the French doors to the east bank of the pond. There were six clumps, all looking the worse for wear. They all need lots of watering. In the afternoon, Judy and I went to Gardeners Supply and got anemones to fill the spot where the hydrangeas were. Two were ‘Pink Saucer’, Anemone hupehensis, one Anemone x ‘Pamina’ and one A. ‘Sweetly’. I also put a phlox, P. paniculata ‘David’ in the same bed. We got two pink turtleheads, Chelone lyonii ‘Hot Lips’ that Addie put in the dining room window bed after she pulled all the ferns out. I put another ligularia in the porch bed, L. ’Desdemona’.  

New blooms: catalpa tree, baptisia, false indigo.

Look who we saw on the road at a neighbor's house. Actually we've seen her/him a few times.

Addie and I working on the hydrangea transplants.

False Indigo shrub flower. Amorpha fruticosa.