jaeleslie

The big mission today was to acquire a bootscraper/brush for the back door, so we don't track in so much grass and mud. (With a push mower Mr S has to cut the grass more often to keep it in shape -- takes him only twenty minutes back and front -- so we have lots of clippings.) Went to three different garden stores, and came home also with a couple bushy little Blue Wave petunias (trailing growth habit for planters out back), a classic red-orange geranium, and a thing that looks like a junior size trailing petunia but is called a Calibrachoa (color Terra Cotta). Then I went to work putting the herbs and dark blue pansies I had bought previously into planters as well. Wore myself out, and still half a flat of pansies to go, but the yard looks great. After the rain last week everything is twice as tall, including the weeds. The tulips are nearly done but the phlox and alliums are coming on, and masses of daisies are about to pop. In fact it is the best display on the block this year, the back even more than the front. I keep the spring horsies out back, where they won't scandalize passersby on the street, but hope to amuse people walking down the gravel alley in back.