Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Back from Down Under and being obsessive May 31


Well, if you know me, I need to get things done and to get to the end of May and NOT have planted the petunias and the Italian Container Garden is really bad.  I even hurt my hand today. ugh.  I would work on the computer, have calls then run out and plant. Tom commented at a grad party tonight, "Your hands are still rather dirty."  ha.
Well, this is the pink Azalea. Yeah, I think it got over-watered by sprinklers or something.  Pink all gone but the green looks good. I have it drying out under the pine tree
Remember those pretty white and purple little daisies? Well, they disappeared so I replanted the green part into the garden behind this picture and hoping for some blooms to reappear.  I also moved the other purple and white geraniums that did not have flowers anymore also to that garden and will Miracle Gro.  I put the lovely geraniums I always get from Joan's PEO in those pots.  Look at the pansies.  How can I keep them blooming? keep them in the shade? I don't know.
I found these red, pink and yellow little candlesticks at Walmart. BTW,  Walmart had great looking petunias for $.98 a container which is the lowest I've ever seen.  Bought a lot but as you will see, not enough!  tried to go back there tonight with Tom but they did not have power! Imagine that!

Important:  I had a delphinium like this one last year in the main garden and it was lovely.  It did not return and it is a perennial.  So I got one (at Walmart, great price like $4) and put it in the tree garden.
Disappointment?  did the poppy even bloom? Do they not bloom the first year? Why can't I grow poppies?  I know that others in the 'hood have so many and they multiply.  But, alas, not for me. Maybe next year. I will pamper it.
Well, here is the start of the back garden.  Note: need more petunias.  note the lily on the right side. Hope it returns next year.  Need more perennials as I get older.  Need to have those come back to save my poor back which hurts now.
Every year I've added less color to the "dusties" garden.  Just so easy to have those but needed some color this year and might add something else?
Tom got these pots before the wedding last year.  I did the thrill, fill and spill with a spike, two geraniums and then yellow marigolds and some dusty miller for the spill. Not sure about them but they are okay.

Roses really bloomed a month early.  I need to trim there tomorrow.  they must have been pretty!
These are John and Debbie's peonies.  Wow, they are lovely every year but only bloom for like a week.

As you all know, this blog is really for me to take notes and learn.

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