Sorry I haven't been online much! I'm very busy right now. I still have numerous photos to upload though :> !
I'm still gardening, growing, and researching about plants.
Sorry I haven't been online very much lately.
Here's a picture of Celtis laevigata (Sugar hackberry, very spiny) with both Ampelovirus (Hackberry mosaic virus) and Pachypsylla celtidisasterisca (Celti-Disaster-Isca? 
), which is the Hackberry Star Gall Psyllid. Fun fun. Little donuts.
It's really warm today. Warmer than inside our home.
I have good news and bad news, I think I'll start with the bad news.
I was walking around the garden beds today, admiring the now luscious new growth on the Sedum, when I wondered "Where are those newly sprouted tulips I planted?" Well. Guess what... they were dug up, all toasted below the garden bed 
. I watered them and planted them back. Whatever came today and decided to take bites out of the bulbs also decided to uproot some of my FAVORITE plants. Dianthus and Scabiosa plantings were strewn out on the lawn. Dianthus did not make it, too crispy now. My favorite Armeria was almost fully uprooted, but it looks like the boulder I staged it in front of kept it in-ground. Some of the smaller semps got pulled out and messed up. 
I will be setting up a new fence.
Now... good news!
On the bright side, the undamaged semps and sedums are doing GREAT! Sedum acre has caught my eye, it is nestled in the red-semp mountain, so it stands out. I'm redoing the area soon anyways, so I'll get the chance to fix the semp planting area soon. I found a good source for "fancy" small topdressing -- neutral gray, so it'll be better than the blinding cream pea pebbles I had earlier.
Daylilies are doing great, I'll probably divide Stella de Oro tomorrow. If you are not following the daylily forum, I kinda want more daylilies now 
. I checked in on my current ones, they are making new leaves. Last year, Low Carbon Footprint made a scape, but it got lopped off my wildlife. Hopefully this year I'll get blooms!! 
My non-damaged semps are looking super good, and my semps from Bev and Alchemist are also doing great.
That's pretty much it right now.
Bye!
Sedumzz
There are apparenlty no images of this species online
Today something terrible happened to the alpine garden bed...
Something (or someone) came in and bit off half of nearly every single Sempervivum I had, and dug up a bunch of plants. Then, I realized that the Crocus sprouts were missing. Well, apparently, whatever came in also decided to decapitate every single one, even the ones that were still budding
I think to help the Sempervivum I should keep the halves dry and callous? There's not much I can do about the Crocus though.
