This fall is the first fall in our #newoldbackyard, so I've been busy with various fall plantings. Starting with the tulip and allium bulbs, the harvested hostas, ferns and hydrangea from our neighbor's yard and most recently with a Disneyland Rose plant and a Everlasting Revolution Hydrangea - both from Jackson and Perkins. This one above, the Tuff Stuff Red Hydrangea, is the last in the series of plants that we were given by Nat's mom as an anniversary gift. I put it in a spot adjacent to the Everlasting Revolution variety (the multi-colored one) as outlined in the most recent landscape plan documents . If you look closely at the photo above, you can get a sense for the soil we're dealing with in the #newoldbackyard. It isn't great. In the Spring, I have plans to amend the soil with some organic material and till it in where the beds are located. That might require me pulling some of these plants out and replanting them, but they'll b