Mystery plant identified, and now, remembered. It is a miniature variegated hosta I planted last year in a planter with caladiums and inpatiens. I stuck it hurriedly in the ground when I emptied the planter after the first hard frost. It is still not unfurled, but loosened enough today for me to see the pale leaf border, which jogged my memory.

It's hot here today - 87 F. some of the azaleas are starting to bloom. All of those you gave me, Bobert, made it through the winter. Still fighting with insects on the first one you gave me. Hoping if I alternate insecticidal soap with all season dormant oil I can get them controlled well enough for the plant to thrive, instead of just survive.   It has lots of flower buds on it. Can't wait for it to bloom. Of the other two, the larger one which was a rooted cutting has flower buds on it. I thought the one P-vine had started from seed had died over the winter because all of the leaves turned brown. But it recently shed all of those leaves, and new buds are starting to leaf out!

Fiddleheads of Japanese Painted Fern and Ghost fern are up. Big-leafed hydrangea is nearly fully leafed out. Smooth hydrangea not far behind. The parents of my son's girlfriend a big gardeners and brought me another smooth hydrangea and a rooted shoot from an oak-leaf hydrangea.

No moola for potting soil, etc. just yet, so no lettuce and greens seeded. But since Annie is bringing down those raised beds and her trailer, maybe I can get something seeded in an actual garden bed this next week!

Got to pay bills, clean house, work on taxes today, but it is going to be a gorgeous several days and starting tomorrow, I'm headed for the yard and garden.