Riots of Color
Well, there will be, when we get there. What you see above is our third annual "annual bed," which Deb and I put in this past weekend. The back row will be tall plants--Black-eyed Susans in the middle with multi-colored giant zinnias next to them and Victoria blue salvias at the outsides. The middle row is centered by wine & lime green coleus with a new flower (for me) alongside them called gomphrena (deep fuchsia tiny button blossoms) and vanilla marigolds to the outsides. In the front row center sits another new plant called nierembergia, with short soft spikes holding white cup-shaped flowers, surrounded by flashy orange dwarf marigolds with one-inch blossoms, and at the sides red verbena with eyes. (Well, that's what they call them.) All this forthcoming beauty for only $35.
We didn't think we'd get the bed in this year, what with the very late spring and the soil unworkable for so long. Our vegetable garden behind the annual bed went in two weeks ago. That's a lot of work piled up to handle in a short time, but we found enough plants to do the annuals job yet last Friday and Saturday morning we put them in in less than two hours. I will send you another photo about a month from now, when the riot is in full swing.
There is nothing like annuals in the summertime. I have long grown perennials, which are so easy because you don't have to replant them every year. The problem is, they have short blooming seasons. Annuals keep giving week after week all summer long and up until frost. And nowadays you don't have to grow them from seed anymore; the florist shops and departments sell the starter plants by the plant, four-pack, or flat. It's so easy now, and what joy it is to see that abundance of blossoming out my kitchen sink window or the Great Room windows and patio doors--lots of great viewing for months on end. What a glorious gift for poor as well as rich, from our loving God!
Already enjoying the gorgeous scenery to come at home,
Margaret
We didn't think we'd get the bed in this year, what with the very late spring and the soil unworkable for so long. Our vegetable garden behind the annual bed went in two weeks ago. That's a lot of work piled up to handle in a short time, but we found enough plants to do the annuals job yet last Friday and Saturday morning we put them in in less than two hours. I will send you another photo about a month from now, when the riot is in full swing.
There is nothing like annuals in the summertime. I have long grown perennials, which are so easy because you don't have to replant them every year. The problem is, they have short blooming seasons. Annuals keep giving week after week all summer long and up until frost. And nowadays you don't have to grow them from seed anymore; the florist shops and departments sell the starter plants by the plant, four-pack, or flat. It's so easy now, and what joy it is to see that abundance of blossoming out my kitchen sink window or the Great Room windows and patio doors--lots of great viewing for months on end. What a glorious gift for poor as well as rich, from our loving God!
Already enjoying the gorgeous scenery to come at home,
Margaret
