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Have planted all the things I needed to plant; a dozen pods of sweet peas, six alyssum, six blue and six white lobelia, six violas, five geraniums, a summer chrysanth thing, a white verbena, two sorts of marigold, an evening primrose, six snapdragons, a tree lily bulb, an eryngium root, half a dozen mixed wild flower pods which frankly I expect to die because I've never managed to successfully sow wild flowers inside and then set them out and I don't see why this year should be different, and a lot of nasturtium and sunflower seeds. And in order to put them in I had to take up a lot of the aquilegia and michelmas daisies that both overrun the garden. (And since I was pulling things up anyway I weeded dandelions.)
I think that's about 80 holes dug in two hours. And then I came in and drank a litre of water and took two ibuprofen. Oomeback.
I dithered about buying the violas but I'm very glad I did now- most of the other stuff isn't in flower yet so they're about the only thing that actually shows up as having made a difference in the back garden after all that work! Organic slugdeath is liberally scattered around so with luck the flowers might last a while before they get eaten.

In flower: violas, alyssum, hyacinths, juneberry, white narcissus, lady's mantle (oodles of it), primroses, violets, wallflowers, rosemary, aubretias, forget-me-nots just started.