finished the temporary plant bed

[Leslie]

and at least got the bulbs in.  Saffron crocus and ornamental onion. Mike once wrote that his plants tremble whenever they see him with a spade, so I offer this quote from the Fall  Forest Farm Catalog:

"The great majority of the flowers in my garden are in their present places because they have personally informed me, in the clearest possible tones,that this is where they wish to be..."   --B. Nichols