It's been a long long long time!

Fifteen years ago yesterday I went on a date with a woman I had been passively stalking for a while. It was a lunch date and I remember walking back to work, I was next to the library and I said to myself "I'm going to marry this woman". Of course I then admonished myself for thinking that after one date but I told myself "give it a year, let's not get crazy".

One year and 1 month later we were married in Las Vegas! Best bet I have ever made.

The above flowers are Veronica Peduncularis "Georgia Blue" and are a ground cover. Each flower is about 1/4 the size of a penny and I love these little guys!  All the internets say it's rated for zone 6 but Elweed walks around stealing other peoples ground covers. . . . . well . . .he says steals but he snips tendrils off and sticks them in his pocket and then grows then in his window garden.

This is what the rockery looks like standing while standing on a chair looking down.  Blake was a little worried because he does not understand how humans can balance ANYWAY, much less standing on a chair and I was hoping mommy would not see me.  

Blake calls us "mommy" and "daddy", Milo calls me "Rod" and "The One Who Feeds Me" and sometimes just "My Captor's"

#1 - three Variegated European Dogwood
#2 - Veronica Oltensis "Dainty" or "Mini- Speedwell"
#3 - Thymus Praecox "Red Creeping Thyme"
#4 - Phlox Subulata "Emerald Blue
#5 - Phlox Subulata "Emerald Blue - also called Little Brian
#6 - Veronica Spicata? - you bought it
#7 - Sedum Selskianum Variegatum
#8 - Veronica Peduncularis "Georgia Blue (creeping speedwell)
#9 - Dianthus Ed's Best - also called Big Woolly
#10 - 'Jolly Bee' Hardy Geranium
#12 - Saxifraga
#13 - Thymus Glabrescens
#14 -best guess is Dianthus Alpinus
#15 - three Upright Red Chokeberry
#16 - common weeds
#17 - Dianthus "Artic Fire"
#18 - Lamium Maculatum "Beacon Silver" not seen in photo
#19 - Vinca minor Periwinkle
#20 - Galium Odoratum "Sweet Woodruff" not in photo - behind Chokeberries

We planted two Goldflame Honeysuckle this weekend.

 #1 - Heuchera "Plum Pudding Coral Bells"

 #2 So Sweet Hosta

#3 Goldflame Honeysuckle

Gotta run
Cheers 

Rod