Boy, wouldn't a Mudcat Garden Tour be a wonderful thing!
Hope you are documenting your work, bbcw, and will post pics as the work unfolds.
Oh Me of Little Faith! maeve's bloodroot lives!
Tulips don't tend to be reliably perennial here. The lady of the house before me had planted them here and there at some point in the past, and in the last few days they have colored up and some are in full bloom.
I never met her. She was in a nursing home and the house was sold by her son, her power of attorney. (I hadn't thought about it before, but the first house, the one in Hillsborough, was sold under the same conditions.) The neighbors tell me she was a gardener, and there is evidence that was the case, though she must not have been able to do much for quite some time, and I am also realizing how light must have changed over time as trees got bigger and shaded more area, based on what she planted that is still growing, but in areas much too shady now.