Monday 29 August 2005
2:42 p.m.

I should be working.
But it's too nice out!

So I'm working on Irene's Oval. She just gave me a bunch of lilies, a miniature bleeding heart, some carnations, and poppyseed.

One new flowerbed a year seems to be standard.

Last summer I put in Marilou's Crescent: daylilies, brown-eyed susans, speedwells, lambs' ears, blazing stars, showy stonecrop. She gave me all these after I helped her put the greenhouse's extra flowers into the ground in August. Here it is:

The grass needs trimming.

The new one is at the upper left of the picture, and shaped like an egg.