Jeanine and I spent much of the day in the garden, planting and replanting tall grasses in the front yard. They need to be installed on a 24″ x 24″ offset grid. The initial installation we paid for was less of a grid and more of a random scattering. Because the soil in this area of the yard has a high density of buried rocks, each hole must be excavated with a pickaxe, making it tedious work. Even so, it was very satisfying to install about 40 pants. Tomorrow, we hope to complete the grid with an additional 25 plants.

Even though I featured our rhododendron in yesterday’s post, the blooms are so magnificent right now that I thought a second entry was warranted. The foreground is the clover we planted last year, and it is looking quite robust this season.