Slope work

I noticed a few more bulbs making progress with today's warm weather.

These were on the slope, behind the shed.

Looking back at last year's posts, I think they are both tulips.

They look so striking with the multi-colored leaves.

Geraniums

I finally got started on moving these geraniums out of the back flowerbed, and onto the slope.

As I started digging them up, I realized they must have really needed dividing anyway. Several of the tufts of leaves were connected to a big, mostly rotten stem/root about a foot long. I broke off all but about 4-5 inches on each one and replanted them in the little groups you can see, above.

I dug up a bunch of dead grass to put them in. Not sorry about that at all! I like the contrasting shape of their leaves back there. Their rounder shape echoes the heuchera up higher.

There is still a good-sized patch to dig up in the flowerbed. Besides the fact that I just ran out of time, I also want to wait a bit and see where the bulbs come up that I planted last fall, since I didn't really mark the locations at all. I wouldn't want to dig up any of those in my zeal to replace ugly dead grass with fresh green geraniums.

I'm not sure that they will thrive back there, but if they don't, they'll be easy to pull out and replace. And for now, they already make it look tons better!