my mother gave me a bunch of monarda, some rudbeckia (the maryland state flower, doncha know), a pot of vinca, a tangle of autumn clematis and one magnolia. oh, and five strawberry plants.

i gave her pulmonaria “spilled milk.” (lungwort! for mother’s day! brilliant!)

it was a good mother’s day.

(yesterday’s acquisitions: nasturtiums, osteospermum, petunias, snapdragons, and one of my favorite shade plants, bleeding heart.)