First Warm Day

It reached the low 70s today and was quite warm and nice.  There was still a cool breeze, though, and it felt unsettled.  Rain tonight.

Got a lot done! 

Jim and I recut the small garden by the driveway to mirror the line of the driveway's edge.  Took out a ton of sod --- and it was hard work--- just to make it slightly bigger and straighter.  I removed the mums and planted them around the patio and behind the paperbark maple.

Unfortunately with the curve on the other side, it now looks like a giant footprint.

I'm tempted to cut 5 varying little gardens on the right and make it actually look like a giant foot.  Or maybe not.  I might just expand the left side curve a little more so the "heel' isn't so obviously foot shaped.

Here was the wiggly amoeba shape last fall:

I transplanted all the perennial foxgloves to the new east side garden.

While I was at it, I moved a sundrop from Meadow's Edge to the Birch Garden, I divided a nepeta and put it next to the bench under the birch, I divided one of the Husker's Red penstemons to fill in a spot nearby, and I moved and divided one of the Frosty Morn sedums to Meadow's Edge to "mass" with the others.  Fun moving things around and making more plants on a warm spring day!

You can see the grass is greening up, but still no forsythia or cherry blossoms yet.