After the Rain

Sun today after so much rain.  It was cool, in the 60s and windy, and everything sparkled in the sun.

I got so much done outside, although the ground was soggy.  I weeded everywhere (so easy in the wet) and clipped down the tired perennials in the Birch Garden.  

I planted the three new lobelias in Meadow's Edge.  Then I planted up the new driveway garden:

I put in 8 new small plugs of rhus armoatica, to spread and fill in.  I moved the 'Golden Peep' dwarf forsythia that was languishing under the redbud by the guest room window. 

Then I moved the 'Tardiva' hydrangeas from the west side to this garden, lined up to make a hedge going up the driveway.  I hate transplanting --- would rather plant small container plants!  Digging up these hydrangeas was easy enough, but they are big, I didn't get much dirt around the rootball, and it is a struggle.  I hope they will be ok.

I also transplanted some white wood asters from the meadow, as well as a purple aster.

The idea of this strip will be a woodland kind of look: a broad swath of low sumac groundcover shrubs, the witch hazels and hydrangeas, and scatterings of asters.  It's a start.