The Pinks

Just a lovely day.  Dry, sunny, cool.  It was a little hot working in the garden, but after dinner the air is cool, the windows are open.  This morning was clear and dew spangled and I had my coffee sitting on the front steps inhaling the sweet fragrance of the pink Knockout roses.

I moved the little sassafras out to the back hill to replace the one that didn't take this spring.  It is now limp and unhappy, but I moved it before, and it recovered.  We'll see.

I also moved a white pine out from the depths of the treeline along the back hill and put it out in the meadow.

I got more rhus aromatica at Warner's to continue filling in the Drive By Garden.  The hot pink penstemons that I moved from the Birch Garden are blooming. They are a very hard color to coordinate with anything else, but I am actually liking them with the dusty blue green Rosa glauca. 

Hard to photograph, but this might be a nice combo when they mature.

The Beverly Sills iris is another pink bloomer right now.