Did a fair bit of re-arranging in the garden today. To start with, took out the glorious white Cosmos in the front garden. It was doing tremendously well but it was the wrong plant for that location. Also scooped up the wave petunias that were growing near the lilies. They looked they had pretty much seen their best days. I then dug out that giant iris that I'd though was a lily. I've no idea what cultivar it is other than the fact that it is yellow. I took it in the back, broke it up into at least a dozen chunks and planted them. For many of these re-plantings I put a root starting cube at the bottom of the hole but also mixed in some blood meal. The irises were planted along the north fence; at the foot of the honeysuckle, and along the west fence. I hope they grow somehow somewhere.
Next up was some moving around. Moved the purple coneflowers from their near-the-barbeque position to further back in the garden between the burning bush and the cedar tree. Then I moved some of the shasta daisies. One clump in the barbeque garden was moved up to to where the rhodendron used to be. Another clump. by the dogwood on the west side, was moved a few feet left.
I also dug up the coneflowers and divided them.
Then I put some new bulbs in. First, some white tulips to the west of the birch tree; some aneomones and aliums to the east of the birch tree and in and around the lobster trap.
I think I should put manure or some compost on this whole area in the fall.