Flowers! We Got Flowers! We Got Lots and Lots of Flowers!
As promised, here's my flowery picspam!
Not bad for Walmart bargains, eh? I've got variegated vinca, creeping jenny, violas, dwarf snap dragons -- I typed it as snape dragons originally! -- and... I don't remember. Sorry. But I can happily report that all these annuals came from Kalamazoo, MI, not China. ;)
The snapdragons have been a little disappointing, however. Maybe in time they will bloom nicely.
Next up are the perennials. These are from Meijer. I don't know where the plants were grown, but the store is Michigan based. Here I've got wormwood (silver mound artemesia) again, delphinium and... once again, I don't remember. But the effect I was going for is 'maize and blue.' However, I misjudged the bloom time: one will be spent before the other has a chance to show off. :(
The clematis vine is big and bushy this year. I took this photo about eight days ago. Oh, look! Mr. C's in the background.
Compare that to this one taken three days ago. What a blooming beauty! Oh, noes! Don't look at the lawn. I'm a bit embarrassed by that. But it's nothing a little watering won't fix. And speaking of water...
Look at the variety of sprinklers I have. Mr. C forgets the sheer number of sprinklers we have already, and he manages to buy at least one every year. Maybe this photo will remind him. ;)
And here's one more for the road. This is the front bed, also know as 'the place where plants go to die.' But this year... success. I transferred last year's urn flowers (wormwood and springwells) here in the fall, and they continue to thrive. And the maiden grass returned this year, although the one on the right is sort of sad, right?
Thanks for letting me share my pretties with you all. :D
*mwah*
Not bad for Walmart bargains, eh? I've got variegated vinca, creeping jenny, violas, dwarf snap dragons -- I typed it as snape dragons originally! -- and... I don't remember. Sorry. But I can happily report that all these annuals came from Kalamazoo, MI, not China. ;)
The snapdragons have been a little disappointing, however. Maybe in time they will bloom nicely.
Next up are the perennials. These are from Meijer. I don't know where the plants were grown, but the store is Michigan based. Here I've got wormwood (silver mound artemesia) again, delphinium and... once again, I don't remember. But the effect I was going for is 'maize and blue.' However, I misjudged the bloom time: one will be spent before the other has a chance to show off. :(
The clematis vine is big and bushy this year. I took this photo about eight days ago. Oh, look! Mr. C's in the background.
Compare that to this one taken three days ago. What a blooming beauty! Oh, noes! Don't look at the lawn. I'm a bit embarrassed by that. But it's nothing a little watering won't fix. And speaking of water...
Look at the variety of sprinklers I have. Mr. C forgets the sheer number of sprinklers we have already, and he manages to buy at least one every year. Maybe this photo will remind him. ;)
And here's one more for the road. This is the front bed, also know as 'the place where plants go to die.' But this year... success. I transferred last year's urn flowers (wormwood and springwells) here in the fall, and they continue to thrive. And the maiden grass returned this year, although the one on the right is sort of sad, right?
Thanks for letting me share my pretties with you all. :D
*mwah*