May 25 2024 Day.

 Just to keep track.  I have spent $445 total on the garden and I am not done.  Twice at Walmart and twice at Big Tool box

I don't know if I will buy much more.

I planted the coleus, petunias, another sedum, and the dahlias. What is tough about dahlias is that they take so long and you have to wonder if anything is happening.

So a lot of work in the new perennial garden.  I hope to put a lily in this afternoon and the snow in summer, and a zinnia.  I got some impatiens for the garden near the Baileys. They planted their tomatoes early and the tomatoes are doing really well.  

Tom put these two medal hanging things out front for two hanging baskets.  I may not use those because hanging baskets are expensive.  And I had already bought some plants (geranium, marigold, sweet potato vine, spike) for the while plastic containers.

At Hobby Lobby this week I bought a simple sunflower wreath and I took down that welcome rabbit thing and put a flat basket up.

Impatiens and volunteer snapdragons

Another sedum in the Pine Tree garden

Coleus and marigolds

Some color

attempting to call hummingbirds

snow in summer, salva and lavender

Asia lily, delphinium.  Hoping that lamb's ear will grow

Hoping those dahlias come up. Red petunia for color

The old rose bush was given to me in 1999 by Nancy Fritz. Saw this miniature yellow and thought I'd add it

A zinnia near some zinnia seeds

one pot of geraniums

May 22, 2024. Back from Asia and in the garden

This is the beginning of another perennial garden.  I put in lavender, a hydrangea bush, moved some lamb's ear. There is a salva near the hummingbird. The bee flowers and more other seeds are coming up near the air conditioner.  I am letting the ivy grow but working hard to keep pulling up that awful weed, vine weed and that other stuff. Another perennial there near the bricks.

There are a number of dahlias planted here

There is a delphenium  back there and I put the owl there to try to keep the squirrels out.

Dahlias here

The Rio is something new but red and I thought it might attract hummingbirds.  I need to put up my hummingbird feeder

Nothing planted here yet and it looks good!  This is years though having this perennial garden grow

I just planted a Japanese cuke plant, small pumpkins, a few more zucchini,  summer squash, lettuce and spring onions.

The lilacs were pretty dead but I did enjoy these .  No smell though

I thought the birds learned their lesson about the hawk but I guess not. And that odd big one, what is that?