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Trekked east today for my almost-always-annual perennial shopping trip to Blanchette Gardens, which for obvious reasons I missed last year. Been working in the yard as much as mosquitoes will allow (which is not nearly enough) and it's been great seeing my gardens come back to life and order after more than a year of neglect. Met up with non-LJ-Terri for lunch and the plant-acquisition, where we just managed to dodge some short-lived but determined rain. Also, learned a lesson: when someone asks you how to reciprocate a favor done, and you answer "cookies", qualify that with an amount; I am now the proud owner of eight dozen extraordinarily delicious cookies. Yowza! I understand they freeze; I'm good for cookies for a very loooong time (-:

Tried to stick to mostly sun plants, as tackling the shady parts of the yard is a task I'd intended to deal with in future years. Still ended up with shade plants, though, because of course.

( plant list )

As most of my friends know, and those who didn't can probably now guess, I get a bit obsessive about my gardens. Enough to have a very good visio map of my entire yard, and have little conniptions about the plants that predate my buying the house which I can't identify the specific variety.

Eh, so there. It was a good day, except for screaming teething babies in the car and one vomiting on me an hour ago, but I also have cookies and plants for the win.