You get what you pay for..., continued...

This is one of three equally healthy variegated pieris ($12ish or so, half price from the Medium Expensive Nursery):

These are the four Blue Angel (? something like that) hydrangea (also $12ish or so, half price from MEN) -- they've been the most gratifying part of the garden for the last several weeks:

This is the very last of my spirea in bloom, but I have to say: spirea love my yard.  They self-seed all over the place, both the green shown herein and a lovely gold that I have all over the place, and I yank them out by the roots and transplant them into TOTALLY FREE Shrub lines like this one:

Count my blessings, eh?

Here's another of the variegated pieris, along with some lovely Ostrich ferns given by my friend Ruth, and one of the golden spirea ripped out of some spot it had self-seeded, and a Canadian fern from my friend Kristina, plus yet another patch of heuchera (Walmart, $6 each) that I'm trying, once again, to get going.  I like the way the textures and colors look together:

And this is a bit of variegated Solomon's seal, also courtesy of Ruth, along with some dying-back bleeding heart (toxic to deer, bless its discrete golden little heart; and which also self-propagates all over the property) and a bunch of weeds:

Now I'll do one last post of Garden Highs and Lows, and then punch out for the day.