The new planting is doing well! Almost everything is thriving.

The Tiarella is flowering. The deer ate some of the flowers at first but then mostly left them alone.

The Physocarpus is gaining some colour. It’s probably not going to be as strongly bronze-coloured as it would be in the sun, but it’s hard to find colourful bushes that like shade! Even if it just has an orange tint to some of its leaves, it’s going to be nice.

One thing that isn’t happy is the martagon lilies. Something has eaten holes all over the leaves. It remains to be seen if they survive.