More (yes, more) new plants

These I bought at the plant sale this morning:

• a Bishop's Hat plant (Epimedium) -- likes shady, woody places
• a Balloon Flower (Platycodon grandiflorus) for the border
• a Siberian Iris (Iris Sibirca) to go near the water
• some Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis) to go in a container for now

Then later I went to the shed shop in Medford to take a look (it was the really-cute Victorian playhouse that caught my eye... what a treat that would have been for the children when they were littls)... and then to Lowes because I needed some more plantpots and it was almost next door... and of course couldn't walk out without a plant or three, so two more clematis came home (one summer-flowering and one autumn-flowering), plus a big beautiful hanging begonia.

Now it's thundering and lightening and generally storming, so they are all waiting underneath the deck for a dry spell.

Am glad I went to Lowes before buying a wooden shed. They had a few examples in their parking lot, one of which was very sad. It was rotting from the floor up. It made me realize that if I buy a wooden (i.e., any wood-based material that is not real cedar or similar), and put it where I was thinking of putting it, without constructing a concrete slab, then it will just rot away very quickly.

May revert to original plan of smaller storage sheds under the deck, against the wall. They they will be on the same concrete slab as the house, and protected from the elements. Lowes had a decent 8 by 3 foot one, made of metal, with shelves and garden-tool racks, which would do nicely. A lot less expensive, too.