Almost Time for a New Header Photo

I had a fun Mother's Day.  I went to my mom's church with her, then we went out to eat, and then plant shopping.  We went to her and Dad's house to plant her pots, where all of a sudden I felt very tired.  I went home, and decided to take a nap, but the phone rang, and a delivery of flowers was coming my way from our daughter.  I forgot to take a photo of them.  As it turns out, I ended up getting sick.  I think it was food poisoning, but the doctor's office thought my stomach cramping would have been worse, so they weren't sure. I have a number of symptoms, including a fever, and no energy.  At one point, last night, I mustered enough energy to get the tubs in front planted.  Larry was nice and carried the potting soil, and added it to what was already there.  I was back to no energy after that, and this morning.  I slept most of the day, and am up now because I want to be able to sleep tonight.  Still, I feel like sleeping.  I wasn't able to water some plants that needed it this morning, but went out in the heat to do it this afternoon.  I also took some photos.  I am going to post them without much writing, because I am out of steam again.

This is a tour of the area, starting from the west.  Quite a bit of the area gets some shade from a couple neighbors' trees, but the area by the house doesn't.  The hellebores have been struggling.  

 That's ginger mint in the middle wash tub.

Our rabbits love gazanias, so I planted them in tubs this year.  I hope they don't discover this one, which is in their reach.

My mother-in-law's peonies are in bud.

A lady bug on a butterfly bush:

The cardinal creepers I planted Saturday are doing well, and one has found the trellis.

The pansies were planted in March.  I plan to put something else in with them in case they can't take the heat this summer.

Dahlias are planted under the wire wheel barrow.

The next plants were purchased at our arboretum plant sale Saturday.  They have a lot of growing to do.

Larry's perennial sweet potato vine will need to be trimmed back soon so it can bush out and not grow straight into the sky.  Can you see it?  It doesn't look like it has leafed out yet.

I am looking forward to seeing growth on these new baby plants.

My fever has come down, maybe because the doctor told me to take Tylenol.  I'm feeling chilled now, though, but have a little energy.  Maybe I can hang up the laundry I had started when I got home yesterday.  I hope you are well!  I didn't even feel like reading blogs yesterday or today.  Maybe I'll be able to do some visiting this evening.  Thanks for all the words of encouragement through this saga of the tree removal and garden planning and planting.