more from yesterday-

A walk around the yard, making a note of things and taking photos. My daylilies don't looks as large or thick as last year- I think because the vinca has been encroaching on it. The contrast looks nice, but I want my daylilies healthier-

So I cleaned it all up, pulling out vinca runners and cutting them back. Will mulch with compost soon.

Happy to find that my alstroemeria is alive! This is one the crew dug up and tossed aside when they redid our driveway, and then nobody told me the plant was lying uprooted under the lilac bush. I found it a day later, all dried out (so angry!!) and replanted it, watered it a lot, days in a row. It's recovered!

In spite of being on the edge of a stressed lawn (the neighbors'), very dry soil and nearly mowed down a few times by their hired lawn crew, hyssop on the side bit has survived and even grown. The other I planted on opposite side of the front yard didn't do so well. That's okay! At least I have these three here, and I will mulch them and get them to grow larger and then maybe the crew won't step on them or run over with the riding mower so often because they'll be noticeable.

It's nice to see the foliage of argyranthemum is still alive, making nice delicate blue-green color, even if it doesn't sport fall flowers.

Some of the African daisies are still alive, too- although just barely- bits of paler green foliage among the mums and dusty end-of-season peony foliage.

Here's that viburnum I transplanted out of the back bed. I need to clean up some of the weeds around it so it looks like a deliberate plant in a purposeful place- on the edge of the yard it's at risk kind of. (My other neighbor's hired help seems to ruthlessly hack everything down that isn't a tree. Their slope is completely bare).

Look- the ice plant is healthy! No sign of pests on it this year. The lizards and spiders did their job.

Heucherella by the blue hostas near the garden.

Variegated hosta under another tree, with yellow salvia. I found the last one that's still in the monarda patch, I want to dig it up and move near these, but it's too hot. We have another week predicted of temps in the eighties and low nineties, no rain in sight. Sigh.

I've started using more graywater on the shrubs and flowers outside (from showers), even run the sprinkler a few times to keep my new-seeded grass (trying to fill in some bare spots) from dying.