i am exhausted tonight, a put in an 8 hour day of yard work, i mucked out the flower beds, planted just four new perennials, to fill in holes, mulched the beds and planted some annual seeds, but went you have probably 100+ feet of flower beds it takes a lot of time, i had intended to just do the beds by the sidewalk today and then do the beds around the house next weekend but just got going a did the whole shooting match. i decided to take a much more minimal approach this year, i've been planting a lot of annuals in the beds next to the side walk but decided against it this year, just mulched the spaces between the perennials, and added 3 new ones, a sage and a dwarf arctic willow and one other that i can remember what it is(edit:i checked the tag spirea). also planted one bed with african daisies, sunflowers and gords from seed. added a dwarf japanese juniper to the bed by the bird feeder, had a big hole where something had died, a poppy i think, and surrounded it with red lava rock, i was going to put white sand around it to give it more of an oriental look, but then remembered that there are far too many cats in the neighborhood, may dust a bit of soil in the rocks and see if i can get a sedum to take.
i've used a whole bunch of pots with annuals in them to accent spots in the past but think i'll stick to maybe two pots this year, it was nice but it was a bit cluttered, and i really want to just keep it simple this year. in any case will not buy the plants until next week. in this zone, putting out annuals before memorial day is just to risky...heck we still get frosts sometimes in through the 2nd week of june. but will probably fill the two pots over next weekend.
it was a weird day, it was just a tad cool and overcast all day and tried to rain probably a half dozen times with little success, but a prefect day for the yard work because it wasn't too hot. but got involved with the yard and forgot to eat. never ate my first meal of the day until 3:30 PM. probably will have a snack here in a bit but am too tired to think about it....