On June 3, 2010, I planted a nandina bush behind the house. A few days previously, we had visited a friend who had offered us some of her orange butterfly weed. I dug up the ones she pointed out, but there was a tall nandina bush there, along with a number of lily of the valley plants. So I had to take all of the plants home. I had immediately planted the butterfly weed in a pot and the lilies in a window box. I didn’t know yet where to put the nandina, so I had just laid it down in the shade, shoveled some dirt over the roots, and watered it. It stayed green and healthy looking for a number of days and is still green in its new home behind the house.

The lima beans were taller and had more leaves. They have really grown fast.