Just when I was thinking about putting away the sweaters and cracking out the sandals, another cold snap. Here's hoping this is the last!
I didn't get nearly as much done in the yard as I had hoped, due to the weather. All I managed was to plant some wave petunias on the slope down by the road, where Georg had weeded a week ago. I don't know if these wave petunias really perform as advertised, but if they do they'll cover the whole slope with flowers all summer.
At the farmer's market, besides the wave petunias we bought some more verbascum, and a couple of peach-colored coral bells. I think they'll look really nice with the purple ones we already have. Unfortunately the guy said we need to put them in partial sun to keep that bright peach color, and the place we want to put them is full shade. So we're not exactly sure what to do with them.
Georg also started digging up these volunteer shrubs from behind the butterfly bush that have been a pain in our butts for years. They grow straight up, no branching at all, and they look like hell all year long. They're big and right up against the foundation of the house, so a real challenge to get them out. He dug out about half of the biggest one. I'm hoping we can work on them together over the next couple of days. The butterfly bush is growing so fast now that it will soon impede working back there.
Yesterday I wanted to do more digging in our future cutting garden, but every time I went outside it was cold and windy. So instead I did some housework, and we went out for a drive with Thirteen. The cold weather was an advantage because there was no worry about her overheating in the car. We went to lunch, a shopping trip to Target (where we did not find any outdoor chairs we liked, but we did very much like the hammocks, but we need to get the mosquitos under control before we could even consider buying a hammock), and a trip to the library.
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