Finished grass seed phase of FlowerMove; all flowers moved in FlowerMove are, after a good soaking rain yesterday, surviving and re-blooming. Butterfly friend paid Sunday visit to phlox and had enough of my picture-taking butterfly paparazzi but not before I scored a great shot.
(previously…) Half of the original flowerbed is no more, its weedy squatters evicted and pretty residents moved to temporary housing for de-clumping, separating (K’s job), and the wait for spots in the new bed to open up (read: me to dig many holes). 16 bags of dirt and a whole lot of rock moving requiring sledgehammer / splitting maul fun to remove more recalcitrant stones from their blockade. Pretty transplantation (half of residents in new spots so far) in progress.
Next: finish other half, transplant, make pretty. Stones and new grass, plus area for potential veg garden. Bricks for pond waterfall access path (and Kirby to play with his ball in said pond).
Second backyard project of the summer has commenced with the (long-time-coming) moving and downsizing of the biggest flowerbed in the backyard (part of which is visible on the left of the first photo) – weeding it has become more trouble than it's worth: shifting half to the pond's edge to make a full round of daylilies, with K's pergola outdoor-room and pond at the center, while the other half will remain and be shaped as the very large and immovable plants dictate.
Managed to get the first soil / topsoil coat / churn and rocks transplanted to form the edge today. Remainder of topsoil + another churn next. And then the transplanting…
