Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening October 2015 - Waitin on Joaquin, 1 by Muddy1

Muddy1 wrote:
Ha ha!! One of my daughter's cats loves to eat bugs, but mine just pats at them until I rescue them and put them outside.

I did some minor surgery on a Rhododendron yesterday by removing some really scraggly-looking ground level branches and re-planting one branch that had rooted. It's the branch with the flower, which was formerly 6" above the ground. This Rhodie was hit hard by the last 2 winters, so overall it's not much to look at. The new growth looks pretty good, though.

That gave me space to plant some Gaura biennis (Biennial Beeblossom) I had sitting around in pots. And just when I'm finally getting close to getting everything in the ground....I had to go buy more soil, and came home with some impulse buys: Helenium 'Short n' Sassy' and 2 large pots of Phlox subulata 'Emerald Blue'.