Getting this area ready going plant coneflowers on each end in mid May...

This bare spot is where Gracie urinates and kills the grass... potent stuff...lol

SO going prepare it soon for grass seed...A yearly thing...lol

Magpie, just know on the particularly grey days you have many friends that care. We may not see you in person but you are in our hearts and thoughts. You are a very important piece of the Houzz gardening puzzle.

Thank you, OurSteelers. I appreciate you.

&Thank you Jim.

Diane I unfortunately don't have any photos of my sunflowers from last year. I only grew them in a far corner of the dog run last year so I never got up close to them. I do love them but they grow to extremely thuggish proportions in my garden so they don't really play well with other plants.

I just received 5 happy roses. They were moist and only one branch was broken.

That's good to see, Alice. The roses seem to be in excellent shape. Is one of them Ashley, by any chance? Idaho, where I garden, has such strict plant importation rules, that I'm afraid my rose will have to be sent without soil and with leaves removed. That's how it's been for a long time, but it does depend on where the roses are sent from, too. I wish I could have ordered a bareroot. Diane

I didn’t get Ashley, and I hope yours makes it there healthy! These are WWII Memorial, Bolero, Ebb Tide, Ash Wednesday climber, and Nicole Carol Miller.