This week's update features the finale of annual flower selections for 2011, as well as some more ongoing tasks around the garden.

First we'll start with two new perennial selections: carpet roses! You can't really get these in smaller sizes than mature, or for less than $20, so today I found Amber and Scarlett colors from Monrovia at Stanford Home Center.  These will make a nice low ground cover along my full-sun fence beds where needed.

Now for the annuals. For the last few weeks, my wife and I have been looking for New Guinea Impatiens and some more Dusty Miller to fill some tighter areas in the front, and the only place that ended up having them was K-Mart!

Other tasks done included some weeding in the front, grasscutting and edging, and it was finally time to move the Herbstonne rudbeckia from between the Endless Summer hydrangeas in the north bed to the west fence bed.