Spring is Hurtling Along

70 degrees today and not so windy.  A little cloudy.  The whole neighborhood was out in their yards working today.

Basket of Gold (Aurinia)?  Saw this at Twombly Nursery.  Want it.

All of a sudden it seems like I am running out of spring!  I had such good weather to get major projects done in March, and thought I was way ahead.  Now there are just two more weeks to go until May --- the end of work prep in the garden and the start of the season.  Just two more weeks.

Part of the problem is that I am spending  a lot of time watering.  It doesn't do much good, but it's something.  Until I get mulch down a lot evaporates from the surface in the warm winds of April.

I need to finish up the dirt + compost pile, get it off the pavers, and then order mulch to be dumped in that spot.

What I did today:

• Planted the additional groundcover willows (Salix yezoalpina) on the east side.

• Also planted a pyramid boxwood (Buxus Green Mountain) on the east side and took out the Blau Doneau hydrangea that did not make it.

• Fussed with water and hose connections.  Fussed some more. They still drip. 

• Planted three additional Rhus aromatic Gro Low plants in the driveway strip and under the birch.

• Planted my new Rosa glauca behind the tardiva hydrangeas in the driveway strip. Can't wait to see this come in!

• Watered.

• Fussed with the hoses.  They don't leak but they drip.

Yesterday we went back to Broken Arrow to get some sassafras and the rosa glauca.  Then we visited Twombly Nursery --- what a huge place, and what gloriously big plants they have!  Wow.  I saw a patch of Aurinia (Basket of Gold) sweeping over a big area, and I want that for the top of the driveway.

The thyme is pretty shot where the dirt got dumped on it.  I'll dig up what I can, replant it around the gravel garden edges, and maybe replace the thyme with aurinia.  Thoughts?

The top edge above the pavers needs reworking.