Let’s catch up. What have you been up to this week? I know everyone has been buying flowers for their mothers because yesterday when I went to a local plant nursery, all the beautiful hanging baskets were gone. I did find what I went after though, and came home with a flat of cheery, yellow lantanas along with lavender geraniums and pink impatiens.
Right before dark, I took a rake and a hoe out front to my flower garden. My house is a ranch so there’s a long expanse of beds to fill. I have some perennials: day lilies, iris, a lovely bleeding heart, but I like some annuals to brighten up the beds. Spring just doesn’t feel right until I plant some posies.
The soil in my garden bed is easy to work. (I just have to watch to make sure I save any fishing worms I displace so that I can put them back.) But just as I planted the first lantana, it began to rain. I thought of my father who was a farmer and how he never stopped working because of a change in the weather. I got a little wet, but I finished the job.
I brought one pot umber-colored pot full of white geraniums inside to put in the kitchen window. It is to honor my mother who has been gone for many years.
Enough for now, catch you next week.
Blessings, Jan
Jan,
I enjoyed reading about your planting! Beautiful images
of flower gardens, both past and present. Glad to know
you still honor your mother. Tells so much about her
and you.
Blessings,
Shirley
Thanks a bunch.
Well, Miss Jan, you got me inspired. My school gave all the teachers gift certificates to True Value for teacher appreciation week, so, with hubby in tow, I got some flowers tonight and have planted some in containers on the porch and have others waiting to go to our get-away cabin this weekend. I hope to attract butterflies there with some lantanas, yarrow, and a butterfly bush. Also picked up a basil plant to join the oregano that I was able keep inside over the winter. John got me a hibiscus for Mother’s Day, so I have lots to water, if I remember . . . .
Lantana’s are a favorite of mine. I like the yellow ones with pink centers. I once had one that grew to bushel basket size. Have never been able to get one that big again. They do take lots of water.