What's this? A gardening entry? No way!

Way. I know I'm getting a bit back to myself when I am feeling like gardening. Last week, I replaced the dying purple fountain grass in the two pots by the front door with some winter-y looking juniper. If it dies, it dies. I've decided that replacing plants in those two pots is no more expensive than buying cut flowers for the house for a couple of weeks. Big woop. Of course, while I was at HoDe, I had to pick up 6 pots of Mexican feather grass. The pathway bed out front has been fretting me all summer. In a word, it looks like butt. The crinum is boring me and I can't figure out how to incorporate it in an actual bed. The mealy blue sage has never looked anything but mealy, really. The Russian sage just leans out into the sun. So, I've decided, it all goes. The Russian sage, I'll move to the back. I may give some crinum away, because you can't kill that stuff. The two problems with that bed are A) it's half in the baking sun along the driveway and half in the shade of the red oak, and B) it suffers from my usual spotty planting, due to my fear of plant commitment. Screw that, I'm committing. The one Mex. feather grass I planted last spring because M liked it is thriving. I'm going to plant swathes of that stuff all down the sunny side. It's pretty. It moves in the wind and looks nice backlit (good, since the house and the bed face west). I know it reseeds and I may regret it, but for now, I'm just going to take the plunge. On the shady side, I'm thinking more foxtail fern. But I'll get back to you on that. Now the only problem is finding time to get out there and rework things with Baby V. It freaks me out to have her in her carrier in the shade while I'm working -- what if i bug lands on her? But if I go out in the hour and a half or so that she's sleeping (monitor in tow), I may have to run inside all covered in dirt. And after the time change, there's no more daylight once M gets home, so that's not an option either. I guess I'm going to be a Weekend Gardener this season, and that's okay. Unless I can find some sort of pup-tent/mosquito netting to put over Baby V... They make them for casseroles and cook-outs, why not babies?