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| On the left front are the peppers; behind them are two tiers of snapdragons and the azalea behind them. You can see the bleeding heart and the wave petunias. Way in the left back are hollyhocks. Coming forward you can see foxglove, lupine, maybe you can pick out the phlox, snapdragons and bee balm. |
Ah! It's gardening time again.
It took me two days to till the soil using my three-headed garden weasel. On the first day, I was half-way through the weeding/tilling process when I had to quit. Two days later I finished the clean-up and was ready to plant. I used to do the entire front in one day.
A trip to Garden's Dream, here in Enfield, is always exciting. I know where the perennials and annuals are. I know which greenhouse has my tomatoes (that's for the planter on the back deck) and which greenhouses have whatever else I'm looking for. The wave petunias are always in the same place.
This year the bee balm is fazing itself out in the front garden. There isn't much left and I wonder if it heard me say I was going to rip it out in favor of some other hummingbird attractor. I took out two white phlox and gave them away. At least I hope those were the white ones. I'll know when everything starts to bloom!
The new plants are: ornamental peppers, hollyhocks, foxglove, snapdragons, lupine, and wave petunias. The only plants left over from last year are the bleeding heart, pink phlox, bee balm and the azalea. When the azalea finishes flowering, I will transplant it to the back garden. It is not doing well where it is.
No pictures of the back gardens yet. The bee balm is spreading nicely away from the original plants and the original plants have died off leaving me room to plant other flowers. There are new snapdragons planted in back only because I bought a flat and had plenty of them left over after I planted the front. I have more plants to buy for the back, such as New Guinea impatiens, more foxglove, and whatever else I see that excites me. My two sons gave me a pink False Spirea, which will not get very big, so that is in already.
And I have the railing boxes on the deck that need planting. I think I will go back to red geraniums with vinca vine in between the plants. The tomatoes are already in and growing like crazy.
More to come, for sure.
