As indicated (yesterday), I went shopping at Lowe’s this morning. Seventy pounds of bird seed and fifty pounds of planter soil. Before the sun was dipping in the Western sky, the fifty pound bag of soil was empty. That old saying “The last shall be first” is what I whispered to “Corie” (the Coreopsis) when I took her picture first. The planter isn’t full but enough for a couple of days (until another trip to Lowe’s). Earlier, I transplanted two different Lantana plants, and a Dwarf Butterfly Bush. At Lowe’s, I was attracted to an unknown plant, a “mark down.” The name is Photinia and it loves full sun (so a good candidate for “the other side” garden). The Aster (another mark down) will remain in its nursery pot a few more days. ~~ It was a perfect day, weather-wise!!

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The Photinia was transplanted into an old, large plastic waste basket. In North Carolina, I stored bird seed in the waste basket–and squirrels gnawed holes in the bottom. Because the Photinia becomes a large shrub, I wanted to give it lots of soil for the roots.