Garden Surprises

I keep having wonderful garden surprises. It's amazing what roots turn out to be still alive if they have a few years of weeds being kept in check.

I'm really happy about this. It's a large vase-shaped Hosta called 'Krossa.' I bought one years ago and it got moved several times and I thought it was dead. But I thought I found a bit of it last year and moved it here to the front bed. It seems to be very happy. AND- there is another one that must have hitchhiked with some plants from Ester.

This is in the rock garden. I thought it had all reverted to pink and white, but there seems to still be some of what it was purchased to be. It's a moss phlox called 'Candystripe.' You can easily tell why.

This is a really nice surprise. I thought all of these had died out. This is pheasant-eye narcissus and the bulbs came from the home where I grew up. This will need to be moved, but that's easy enough.

The last surprise is a surprise only because I didn't think it would bloom any more this year. This is the damaged sea thrift 'Morning Star Deep Rose' that I got cheaply. It still has the two blooms that were there when I bought it three weeks ago, but it also developed another flower!

I had good energy today and did a lot of tasks both inside and out, although it's never enough! The lawn needs mowing again, and I HAVE to make the mower seat better before I do that again. That may be tomorrow's project.

Maybe I'll even go out and weed for 15 more minutes right now!

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