Got the Jungle Cliff tidied up, edged the border where it runs down to the lawn. Weeded and reset the small flagstone area at the base of the Jungle Cliff/deck steps. It was overgrown with Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia), ajuga, and Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum), plus some dandelions. Never one to pass up free plants ( 
) I dug all that out and set it aside. Once I had everything dug out, I had to reset the flagstones (they are in fine gravel), and haul in a couple buckets of gravel to fill up the cracks. Looks much better now.
I took down the containers that held my big Christmas/Winter display of juniper branches, holly, etc. Those empty containers have been looking forlorn for a couple of months now. I put away the big box, but filled the two long window boxes with, you guessed it, the Creeping Jenny, Star of Bethlehem, and Ajuga... plus a couple small clumps of Tradescantia (??). Watered that well and set it up on the flight of four wooden steps that I use as my "stage" for such displays, between the garage doors. Next fall, I'm going to pot up some daffodils to use in that display.
Also cleaned up the garage door area; there were some flattened cardboard boxes schedule for recycling, etc. and it just looked messy.
Refreshed the pea gravel in the little dry stream bed that runs the entire length of the Jungle Cliff. It starts under the top of the long flight of deck steps and then wends its way down under the steps and off to the side to end in a little pond filled with water iris. I have to say that idea was a good one. it would be spectacular if I ever install a recirculating pump and actually put water in it (I put down pond liner under the dry stream just in case), but even as a "virtual" streambed, it looks good. I've got it edged with big stones and I tried to make it look as natural as possible. The edges are planted with miniature hostas, miniature ferns and other small shade lovers which like it under the deck steps, where they get just enough sunlight to thrive. I'm encouraging moss on the stones as well. At night a string of very tiny solar-powered "rice lights" (each bulb no bigger than a grain of rice) randomly wanders along the course of the dry stream to mark it out.
Got around to repairing the metal edging around the circular bed in the center of the veg. It's that corrugated tin that they sell for strawberry towers. I have no idea where I got it, but it's been in there forever. Last fall I had to rip up a section and move it aside so I could dig out some nasty weeds/grass. It's finally re-set; got the circular bed tidied up as well. That holds some of my rhubarb, plus chives and some ornamental things. Right now it's bursting with yellow tulips almost ready to bloom.
Got my white plastic garden bench scrubbed. It sits against the shed wall, facing north, so very gray with mildew. I think I'll repaint it. Surprised me that it did not seem to be getting any whiter until it sat for a couple of hours in the sun to dry. I used Tile and Grout cleaner, Ajax powder, and a scrub brush; I guess the chlorine bleach in the cleaners needed time to work. I think it needs moved to another location; never gets used there.
Finally, as the sun was going down on a very windy, chilly day, I got the remaining pavers set in the little landing at the top of the Folly Wall garden steps. I went as far as i could go, but I still need to find a few more chunks of paving to fill in some gaps. For now, it's filled level with fine gravel and I'm content. Bits and pieces of flagstone, old concrete paving, etc. always are turning up somewhere; I'll set those in as I find them. That's the benefit of just "dry setting" paving in fine gravel instead of mortaring it in permanently.
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