The icing on the cake on another week in the garden. Started by mowing and edging / weed whacking. Then I moved on to spreading the 6 bags of black mulch that I bought last night - mostly in the new bed I dug out yesterday. Taking a break in the middle of that, I finished the last 5 blocks of the over-the-hillside retaining wall, having to move 5 hosta clumps in the process. Then I moved two 2x2 cement tiles from my makeshift back patio, and placed them leading from the northeast corner of the lawn to the compost pile over the hill. After all that, finished the mulching and watered it all down. Ha!

Before cleaning up, I moved 2 hollyhocks into sunnier locations before they grew and larger and their roots became impossible to rip from the ground! (One went to the northeast fence corner and the other went into the east side foudation bed.) Also in the east bed, I separated striped dead nettle (lamium) from the spotted, and placed it in 4 spots along the  east fence bed. Watered it down.

Lastly, back up front at the garage, planted 25 liatris corms and 2 bleeding heart roots in a total of 8 2-qt pots. I had bought these at least a month ago and I didn't want to leave them go in fear of them rotting or drying out in their bags.