More plants

Here is what I bought and planted last fall.

From Prairie Nursery:

(5) American Alum Root (3" Pots)  (5) Maple Leaved Alum Root (3" Pots)  (5) Cardinal Flower (3" Pots)  (5) Woodland Sunflower (3" Pots)  (6) White Turtlehead (3" Pots)  (6) Tall Bellflower (3" Pots)
Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum biflorum) Item #: 37210-04 Plant Format: 4" Pots

And then, from White Flower Farm, I got ferns, and scattered them around. Frankly, while I'm sure I planted all of the Prairie Nursery plants, I don't know where I put them. The heucheras are all along the fence by the south end, but I'm not sure about the others. 

Of the plants bought last weekend, yesterday I planted the clematis (along the front walk fence) and made myself a little blueberry patch. (The daylilies went in along the front walk right after I got them.)

My little blueberry patch. Note red subsoil and black topsoil.

Most of the work I've done lately is weeding. There is a lot of weeding to do! I'm pulling out the senecio in batches, to make room for other things that are already there. I pulled it out from around the lilies (by the front walk) and from behind the silverbell. The senecio will need to be deadheaded soon, the stuff I don't pull out. There is an awful lot of it! Yesterday, I did a first cleaning of the back bed where I'll do vegetables. I also cleaned up the ground around the pagoda dogwood and yellow rose, which was covered in dandelions and lyre-leafed sage. I think  phlox may go there.

Last fall, I spent a day or so digging up Joe Pye weed by the roots. I left one patch, which I think I regret now. There are spotty ones coming up in the vicinity of where I dug them out, either strays or from seed. I need to decide on a policy for it going forward - pull out on sight? Allow some to grow? Yesterday, I nipped them all down to just a couple of inches above the ground, but didn't pull them out. There is something coming up along the front walk fence, inside the fence, that looks similar but not the same. Perhaps New York ironweed? I left them, again, for now.

Yesterday was the No Va native plant sale. Because its raining right now, I'm not going to list them (I can't do it from memory.) None are in the ground yet. It was not an enormous buy.

I set the hibiscus outside just now. I think its warm enough for it, but I'm keeping my Cousin It palms inside for a couple more weeks at least.