Great Weekend for Gardening...

What a beautiful weekend we had, I worked at the Garden Center from 10-2:30 on Saturday. We were crazy busy, it was cloudy and a little breezy. Just right to work in your yard. Then I went home and straight out in the yard to work..

My back porch has been covered with flats and flats of flowers I have been growing in the house since Feb. Then after I got them outside I had to transplant many into larger pots making even more pots. So they were everywhere, on the tables under the tables on the benches, in the greenhouses on the porch...
I promised myself that I was going to have the back porch cleaned off before June First...So I had lots to do...

I put everything in sections as to where they were going and who they were going too...

One batch for my Miss Petunia, one for each daughter, one for the Veterans Square down town, and what was left needed to go into my flower beds...

So the race was on...

I put all the vining things around the water barrels that I covered with chicken wire for them to climb.

The Clary went around the bed by the trees, more Mummsy Marigolds in the front beds, Snap Dragons in back of the trees, and a few Coleus in the Secret Garden and some in the Herb Garden with Miss Petunia... Then I planted my really big pot with a few Cherry Tomatoes and my Herb Seeds...

If you haven't met "Miss Petunia" yet here she is with my neighbors Granddaughter. She is one of the smartest 7 year olds I know...

She loves to garden and play with any bugs she can find. Discovering things is her favorite thing to do...

We always have fun and exciting summers together...

"Miss Petunia" is about 5ft. 6in. tall and very voluminous. I planted 21 wave petunias around her skirt today.I am hoping that when they start growing and flowering they will cover her entire skirt...I'm sure I will be adding things to her as time goes on...Her Irish Moss Hair is starting to grow and a few flowers are starting to bloom on it. The Irish Moss has a really cute white flower...

Well it is time of bed... This is our last week of school, how fast this year went...

Have a good one,

Lynn

SHE HAS A NAME...

Miss "Petunia"

My uncle that just died a few weeks ago at the age of 90, always made us kids laugh by calling us "PETUNIA"...
That continued with my children and they laughed too. He just had a way of making you smile...
He will be sadly miss by all of us, but we will remember him this summer every time we look at Miss Petunia and we will smile again!!!
I will keep you updated on her progress this summer, I am going to plant the petunias tomorrow all over her skirt. So I hope by mid June she will be looking pretty good.

Have a good one,
Lynn

It has been such a busy long weekend, and I have so much to post I don't know where to start.

So I may as well start with MRS. WHAT'S HER NAME... I really do need to name her.

She is so big she makes me feel like a "SIZE 6" LOL So she needs a Grand Name...

She is just a good old Country Gal. She now has a cowboy hat hanging on her back and a big basket of flowers she is holding. I even planted a few petunias in her skirt to see how they are going to do. She has a big ole Bootie, that is going to look great full of wave petunias, by the way I grew from "seeds".

I planted calendula all the way around the bottom of her skirt. I had tons coming up in the front beds.

Little at a time she will get done. But I was on a field trip today and it rained all day!

The New Addition... A second water barrel has been added, and as of this evening they are both full... I have a soaker hose going all the way through the large bed in the back. Two years ago when my husband found out the water bill was over $200.00 in July he decided we needed to do something... I LOVE TO WATER FLOWERS!! LOL

It worked wonderful last summer. After I get the vines planted you won't even be able to see the barrels. I have wire that goes all the way around them that the Hyacinth Bean grows on...

Tom caught me planting the Mummsy Marigolds yesterday in the front bed, I didn't even know he had the camera until I started downloading pictures today... I can't wait until those tipsy pots start to over flow with flowers...

Update on baby Robins only a week old, how they have grown...

One of my NEW FAVORITE PLANTS... Bloody Sorrel, with it's beautiful bright green leaf with a magnificent burgundy stripe up the center, no flowers just beautiful foliage.. this is just the second year for this one. It was one of the first to come up in the spring and twice the size as last year. I have two and just love them...
LAST BUTT NOT LEAST THE ZOO...

THE END...

Have A Good One,

Lynn