Too much procrastination

Well, I didn't get anything done outside this weekend. It was a cross between my knees having so much pain and my lack of focus that kept me from making it. Of course, it's raining today. Plus it's my planned inside work day. I'll try again tomorrow or the next day.

In the meantime, I thought I would show you some of the growth that's happening in my pots. Now, I grow a variety of perennials in pots, everything from daylillies to hosta to astilbe to sedum. This winter was hard on the plants in the pots. I lost some sedum and hosta but the daylillies, as usual, continue to soldier on. These picture are of some of my pots from a few weeks ago. This first pot is simply a clump of daylillies I put there for later processing. They're still sitting there and are happy to grow.

I had an interesting experience a couple of years ago in this corner. I had a bunch of annuals waiting to be planted and I was rearranging the plants when a pair of garter snakes came out of them and ran over my feet. A little startling, but the worse part was that I was wearing sandals without socks.

This next set of pots have sedum, astilbe and hosta in them. None are growing in this picture, and I was worried that I had lost them all. As it turns out, I hadn't, but there were some losses. The round pot has two types of sedum growing in it, a green one with small round leaves on a stem, and dragon's blood sedum. Nothing up in this picture.

This crappy looking area has quite a few pots with daylillies, sedum and some other stuff growing in them. They've been there for at least five years and have done fine until this winter. Nothing growing in this photo.

This is the square pot in the previous photo. As you can see, I have one small clump of hosta's growing and the astilbe survived. I had two varieties of hosta in this pot, and I'm not sure which one survived. I'll have to wait to see more of the leaves before I know. This pot receives only morning sun.

This pot had the green and red sedum growing in it. Only the green sedum seems to have survived. No sign of the Dragon's Blood sedum. I'll let it go and see what happens. If the red is really dead, I'll get a fresh start of a different red variety.

Here you can see that my daylillies are going to town. If I were to pick up a pot, the roots would extend into the leaves and humus that has formed at the bottom of the leaves. More information on this area as the plants begin to bloom.

While it looks messy now, I'll be cleaning up this area and the pots in it. It takes me a while to get things done, but I will be making progress. No sign of the daylillies from QVC yet. I'll post on them as I get them. Also look on Pintrest when the plants arrive. I'm hoping to re-pot a lot of these plants this year.