caught up

I've been catching up on posting all the photos taken over past few weeks, with no time to really sit down. Here's the yard plants I've been admiring. Rumex- busting out with growth. Turned out to be a very attractive plant!

It's behind the liriope, which I cleaned up just the other day, cutting back the older foliage. The new leaves appear to glow.

Summersweet also appears to glow with more vigor than I've ever seen. Guess it likes the broken sticks I scattered under its branches all fall, winter, and early spring (whenever I clean the yard).

Forsythia in the far rear corner responded similarly- it has doubled in size, and nearly filled its space, just like I envisioned:

Panicle hydrangeas opening all their green leaves in a hurry:

Columbine:

How I love the ferns. On the left, hellebores, on the right behind the ferns, monarda:

Black-and-blue salvia. A few leaves got nipped by cold- or stepped on? but overall it looks great

Monarda in the back is already a thicket, and echinacea are just as lush:

The echinacea I moved to the edge of the front yard are doing pretty good- I'm no longer anxious to water them every day we lack rain. Already insects are visiting the salvia I planted next to them.