@Kaila The ground orchid is a perennial. Woot woot!
Some of the cosmos are the shorter ones, some the tall ones, and they're mixed colors planted in among mostly bright pink and bright purple flowers. The bright pink are guara, which is finally starting to grow again, and the bright purple are Mexican petunias, which is so s l o w to get started in the spring. So for right now there's color in spite of the late bloomers.
Another alstromeria and a very large pot of columbine came home with us. The alstromeria is a sort of salmon color. The columbine is four separate plants, all in bloom, and in pale pink, a sort of muted red, lavender and light blue, but all together in the same big pot. I think I'm going to leave it in its original home.
Also got a couple of white pentas to break up the pinks/purples that are already in. And the Persian shield got moved.
Because I already had a really big pot in the garden with nothing in it (can you even believe it??), I got another freesia. The one I already had joined the new one in that same big pot with a diamond frost just for something else interesting. The freesia plants both have pink, yellow and purple blooms.
There's still $14 and change left on the gift card, but DD rolled her eyes when I "suggested" finding something else in the center to use it up... She's way past the eye-rollage age
by about 35 years so I figured I wouldn't push it
The neighbor hopes we left something for her and the rest of the city
Oh. I did manage to also lop the dead branches. And I pulled weeds in the bed where the hydrangeas and the peonies live. BTW, the peonies are probably going to bloom this week. Yippee.