We have pretty much just let our garden do its own thing since we planted it.  Well, the weeds were taking over, so it was time to do some maintenance.  It was also abundantly clear that some of the plants needed to be rearranged as we misjudged how tall they would grow.  Here is a picture of when we planted, for comparison purposes.

Well, here is what our garden looks like today. 

Yeah, the Marsh Milkweed, Blazing Star and Stiff Goldenrod have grown like gangbusters!  Ignore the fact that the plants look unwell - it was about a billion degrees today, so they were pretty droopy.  The Goat's Beard totally did not make it at all, so that was removed.  I also don't think the Crested Iris survived, but since there was still a little green, I left them in for now.  I am sorry we don't have more blooms.  There are a few left on the Purple Poppy Mallow - a couple weeks ago there were probably 2 dozen flowers.  We also got one coneflower.  But that's it so far. Compared to some of the neatly manicured gardens around us, ours looks pretty homely.  But I think it has more character and uniqueness.

Oh, and I almost forgot....while transplanting the Marsh Milkweed, I saw crawling up the stem a tiny Praying Mantis!  Eep!

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