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Garden Pic Wednesday: Pink Lantana & Chinese Stonecrop

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  This morning was just mowing and a little edging of beds. And by edging, I meant with a spade shovel, so I can move those nice bits of St. Augustine that are over-growing into the flower bed to bare spots in the yard. We need to go to Walmart tonight to pick river pebble, topsoil and whatever else I need to work on the back yard, particularly the rain garden area.  It's not fully dry, but dry enough and I really need to get my giant tropical lily in the ground--it's in such a small pot. Today's Garden Pics: First, my new Pink Lantana: So pretty!  Lantana is wide, sprawling shrub when fully mature, about 3 to 4 feet and about 18 tall, though very adaptable to pruning. This pink is beside a red with a bit of left-over yellow Lantana I still had behind them, all 3 planted a slight incline. I hope they'll eventually provide a cascade of color on that incline that I'll be able to look out on from my sliding glass door.   Next: Chinese Stonecr...