Set out to my favorite nursery this morning and loaded up on annuals. Just an aside here… there was a man in the next aisle that was returning a defective product… which was a garden deer and rabbit repellent. The spray nozzle did not work right, and it was leaking all over the place. I don’t know about deer and rabbits BUT I can tell you this… there wasn’t a single person that wanted to be around this man! WOW, bad smell… really BAD smell! But I digress!
Anyway, got home with the annuals and planted the 2 new window boxes. I stood back and said, "Grow, grow", they didn’t, but I’m not holding it against the flowers. They need to settle in, I suppose. I also managed to fluff the bed under the window boxes and got some annuals planted in there as well. All in all, a goodly amount of work for the day.
The window boxes include the following plants: bacopa scopia great blue imp, Osteospermum Asti Mix, Calibrachoa Callie Gold w/Red and an unlabeled purply cascading thing! The annuals I planted in the bed below are Cosmos Sonata mix, petunia carpet neptune mix, and petunia madness yellow.
If I get garden time tomorrow, I’d like to tackle the bed on the other side of the front path. NOTE to self… If I’m going to be taking pics of the flower boxes… CLEAN the windows! Boy, I haven’t really looked at them in a long time. This is definitely going to be on next weekends to-do list!
I’m curious as to what you have growing on the trellis in between the windows? I need to plant some annuals! I’m just unsure if I should do that now or wait a few more weeks. Our last frost-free date isn’t until May 25th-ish.
I have an heirloom rose, from Heirloom Roses. I also have 2 of them growing up the trellis in the Dragonfly Garden. They are fragrant climbers with small flowers. For the life of me I can’t find my gardening journal… which makes me think it may be out in the garden. Not the first time I will have left it outside overnight. Thank goodness it’s not suppose to rain or I’d be out there with a flashlight! Anyway, we have a frost date of May 15, and the 10 day forecast does not have frost predicted, so I’m thinking I’m okay. It’s hard to wait, isn’t it! But it has cost me before when I jumped the gun and… FROST!
We have tiny little roses on our front and back trellises too. The lady who used to live here must have been fond of roses. There are a ton of the prickly beasts!
Aw, come on, you have the admire the "prickly beasts". They are living proof you don’t need pesticides to ward off enemies… just sharp prickles! My gardens usually have an English garden feel to them, and I’m a sucker for a rose’s scent! So I tolerate the pricks and think of Sleeping Beauty!