Gardening

 One of my tree dahlia's which I planted from cutting from my sister a few months ago.  Slowly growing  :)

 Another one, not quite as advanced.

When I was at Gwynne's yesterday, she gave me come tree Peonies.  This is one.  Hope it will grow in the shade.  They say they can be hard to grow.  

 My lillium has lots of buds, so hope it will be good this year.  Shame it is white.  I prefer colour.

 This is where I took a lot of bulbs out of the ground.  Lost a couple of the lobelia, as had planted them over the bulbs.  The star flower has so many little tubers, I must have dug up hundreds and hundreds.  Probably left quite a few too.  They can be quite small.

 Planted a couple of tree peonies here too.

 And there is another tree dahlia growing quite well here too.

No sure what this plant is.  I think someone has told me, but have forgotten.  Thought it had died, as all the foliage had died off, but has come back well.  Love the way all the flowers hid underneath the leaves.  Looks good when it is fully in flower.  The thunderstorms and heavy rain of two nights ago, don't appear to have done any damage.

Jay is staying overnight with his godfather.  But missing him.  Quite worried about my son.  So think I am heading into a bout of depression.  Also my friend Joan's, son-in-law, who had cancer, passed away on Wednesday night.  So sad all around.  He was only in his early 40's and leaves two small children.  7 and 5 years old.  Life is not fair sometimes.

Sorry don't want to dampen your weekend.  Hope you and yours are all well and happy.  Lots of love, hugs and kisses.