Some things in life you can always count on

You know that law of real life about waiting around for something, it never comes, then when you start to do something else -- Bing! -- what you'd been waiting hours for magically appears! Of course, if you are expecting a call it never comes.

I love that law of real life because it's true. It never fails.

Like this morning. I was expecting delivery of the last of the plants & grasses to go into the back garden. I thought they were going to call before they arrived. I was expecting a call before they arrived. The morning passed -- no call, no delivery. So, I decided to try dyeing my hair. I'd recently tried this with less than desirable results so I was determined to try again and get it right. Besides, I was sure that as soon as I got the dye in my hair and the alarm went off signaling time to rinse it out to prevent my hair from turning a crazy color of teen-goth black/purple and then all falling out, the plant delivery would arrive!

Like I said, I love that law of real life. It never fails. Almost. The hair-saving alarm didn't go off. BUT that other law of real life that says when you rush to the grocery store to grab a last minute must-have ingredient still sweaty and dirty from working in the garden all afternoon OR have just put the dye in your hair, mask on your face, etc. you'll come face-to-face with the cute guy.

So, with dye covering my hair, latex gloves on my hands, wearing nothing impressive, and about 7 minutes to go my door bell rang. The plants had arrived and on my door step was the cute garden center Polish/Russian/Hungarian/manly-accent man. The one who looks at me, says hello and smiles every time I'm there. Yeah, so I've got all my plants now.

It's Garden List Time!

Here's what I hope to get into the ground by the end of this weekend:
4 chocolate Cosmos (a velvety deep red-brown blossom and smells like dark chocolate)
3 white Cosmos
1 apricot foxglove
1 deep purple delphinium
1 pale pink delphinium
1 light blue delphinium
2 Bishop of Lancaster dahlias (deep red blossoms, dark leaves)
2 blue fescue grasses (Elijah blue)
2 Ucinia grasses (burgundy leaves and slender spikes of tiny white flowers)

Of course to accomplish all this I have to:
hack out another clump of that ugly grassy stuff, only a bit smaller than the huge one that took me hours to remove before planting the lavender; AND

prune back one of the roses which scares me (the pruning, not the roses) but I'm sure it's not flowering anymore so I can't do that much harm, right?



Of course, now it's just started raining.