bugleweed pieces

I mostly wanted to start groundcover under these trees- it doesn't look much now, but I had solomon's seal planted under the furthest one (something ate it), hostas around the foreground left (deer ate them) and sensitive fern planted around the foreground right (withered from bugs and/or heat over summer but is coming back a little bit now). To spread it out enough, I gently pulled and teased each pot of bugleweed apart into many little individual crowns.

The bugleweeds are so little, barely noticeable now- but if it's anything like the ones I got last year, will fill in soon enough. Narrow-leaved 'chocolate chip' around the tree that has sensitive fern (there's four visible in this pic)

'Burgundy glow' around the tree with the eaten hostas-

'Bronze beauty' around the tree on the shady sideyard slope

and 'black scallop' half circled by where the solomon's seal were.

Then I planted more of the 'chocolate chip' on the sunny sideyard, alongside a new row of stepping stones I'm placing there-

Most are in a row under shade of the large lamb's ears-

and gladiolas foliage

and two tucked between step stones

Only had one specimen of dwarf 'metallica crispa' and I put this one under the hydrangea by the rhubarb (yeah, I moved my rhubarb again. I'm a week behind updates here!)

Last of all, the dwarf 'chocolate chip' variety went around the lilac shrub out front. 

I put a new stepping stone down there- this old one in the middle was slippery

so I laid a different larger one that has rough surface but it stands up further above the ground so now I wish I'd had more of the standard bugleweed size, not got the little dwarf ones because they're so cute!

Look what I found when I was working in that spot- my aglaonema and apparently it bloomed this year, but I totally missed it- hidden under the daylily foliage.