Well, I wanted to plant our flowers at least 2 weeks ago. I always love to see the flowers and to watch them grow. It is one of my "happy thoughts" (to take a phrase from Peter Pan).
This year during winter it seemed like we lived in Southern California. We did not get the cold weather or the snow we needed in our very dry state. But in May, we got a TON of rain! I LOVED it, however, it made it so I couldn't plant. It would have washed away my little flowers and drowned them. Yes, we got that much rain, and it was big, hard rain. I loved to be inside and watch and listen to it.
So, here are the pictures of the flowers, I will as usual take pictures later to see how they have grown.
I did something different this year. I made 2 pots to put on our steps. I LOVE topiary. Hopefully the flowers will fill in on the bottom. I also hope the topiary plant grows fuller and taller. We will have to see how much it grows in the next 4 plus months. I wish our flower season was longer. Like I said earlier, I missed at least 2 weeks of may and the 1st week in June, so almost a month.
These pots have "Sweet Potato Vine" and "Calibrachoa" flowers around the topiary.
Just another shot of the topiary pots to give a perspective of height.
Hopefully these will really fill in. I did a different pattern and chose a bit different by way of flowers. We will see at the end of the season which I like better. That big pot in the back is from David's sister, Debbie. She gave us 5 of these beauties along with some other plants that are in the back yard.
I planted red Geraniums, Superbena dark blue flowers, and good old petunias.
Another shot of the new flowers and layout in the front yard.
I added some more plants to give color to the green hostas. I put in
Ooops, I forgot to plant one last night. Actually I didn't forget, it just got so dark by the time I was done, I didn't see this one.
I also found this "Coleus Kong Solenostemon" It is the dark purple leafed with the green on the edges plant. I love this one. And of course one of my favorite plants, "Impatiens". If I feel up to it I would like to get more "Coleus Kong" plants.
Another one of Debbie's beauties!
Here are some "Colorblaze keystone kopper coleus" to go with the green ones. I hope they can catch up in size. I am learning (I hope) about plant placement and color etc. The green plants came back this year, I am hoping the copper colored ones will as well.
Here is the last flower arrangement in our shade garden. This one is by the sidewalk. I hope I haven't crowded the Coleus Kong and put the pink impatiens too far out. See what I mean about learning about plant placement. I am glad that I am doing it though. I sometimes have to fight my insecurities of not doing things just perfect and so not wanting to do the project. I am glad I am getting better at this despite still hearing that I am not perfect in all aspects of my projects that I attempt.
Just more of a shot of how they look together.
Now, we are in the back yard. This is TOTALLY new for us! We have never had flowers back here. Debbie gave us a bunch of perennials. David actually planted all these in the back yard for me. I was SO GRATEFUL! I was so tired from all day planting and well past the night for planting the front yard. I heard we were going to get more rain, possible storms this week and so I wanted to get them all in today. This was also the only day that I was not working this week.
Unfortunately I do not know what any of these plants are.
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