Mid-Atlantic Gardening: FIRST FLOWERS MEMORIAL DAY 2015, 3 by Muddy1

Muddy1 wrote:
CAM, I would add the aluminum sulfate now; I don't think it has much impact after hydrangeas bloom. If they're already blue, you'll just be making them a richer blue.

1 - Penstemon tubaeflorus, shot from my patio with Coreopsis in the background

2 - When greenthumb posted his Echinacea pallida photo, I wondered what had happened to mine. I found them flattened by a combination of the rain and an unruly Carex grayii. I propped them up and corralled the Carex. Only one of them is blooming already.

3 - I've been wondering where to plant 3 Aruncus dioicus (Goat's Beard), and then it came to me: I planted them at the top of the hill to hide the gap between the big old yews and the little new yew. Hopefully, next year I'll be looking at this instead of at my fence: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/64001/