every little bit counts

So far today, I have:
* watered new seedlings and transplants
* cleaned kids' pool
* hoed veggie garden and some bad spots in flower beds

Next up, planting tomatoes.

I have figured out what I want to do with the climbing rose I've had in a pot for the last three years. (It's a cutting from one on the farm where Mom grew up.) I want to take all the horizontal branches off the dead pine at the far east end of the row, leaving just the trunk and some short stubs, and twine this rose bush up what's left. Which will (a) get that dead pine out of the wat, and (b) give me a wonderful rose-covered pillar by my altar. Maybe twine other vines up it too, clematis and such......

Speaking of flowers, what's blooming today?
* trandscantia, despite the heat
* Stella daylilies, and that little dark orange and gold bicolor
* wisteria
* petunias
* dianthus, despite the heat
* the "family" climbing rose, in its pot (pink, double, very small flowers)
* "Mesa Yellow" gaillardia, bright gold daisies
* tickseed coreopsis, more golden daises (yes, it is a theme)
* purple coneflower, and the yellow form (E. paradoxa, more golden daisies)
* the first very tall white shasta daisies
* the first Verbena bonariensis
* "Sunset Boulevard" oenothera, bright yellow, but not a daisy :D
* marigolds (ones that The Miss hasn't destroyed trying to pick flowers)
* allium "Hair" ...go google it, it's a very odd thing
* wild quinine, which is white and pale green
* "Red Dazzler" and "Black Gamecock" irises, and Iris musselmanica
* wood betony
* yarrows in white, lavender, pink, red
* lady bells, Adenophora, spikes of big purple bells
* cherry bells (must remember to not let those go to seed)
* "Nearly Wild" rose

* in the front yard, wild prairie rose and mexican evening primrose, both pale pink, and a few red rugosa roses

There will be true lilies next, and more daylilies, and queen anne's lace, and liatris.