I didn't go this year, and only went to the nursery this morning, more than a week later, to get some stakes for the tall stuff that was falling over. I was happily surprised to find that the half-price sale goes on for "a week or so," according to the cashier, and there were still a number of healthy, not-yet-potbound bargains. I scooped up a white dicentra (alba, a cultivar that blooms after the classic pink variety is done):
another coral bells called Plum Pudding for its purple leaves:
a clump of fescue 'Elijah Blue'
and two clematis plants: the dark-purple 'jackmanii' and a white sweet-autumn variety. They're not in bloom right now. But we half-price gardeners are patient. Oh, and I got another fern, a marginal shield fern:
...so named not for a dearth of the characteristics shared by shield ferns, but for the fact its sporia develop on the margins of its leaves. Oh, and in an update on the habits of fireflies, I had occasion to observe this one for quite a few hours over the course of planting this afternoon, and my anecdotal scientific conclusion is that yes, they do in fact do nothing, and eat nothing, all day!
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Remember those candies that weren't more than dots of colored sugar dropped onto a strip of paper? That what the fourth picture reminds me of.
If I were four years old and in your garden, I would be eating those things.
If you were in her garden, you'd be a firefly. (It was there....)
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