We’re in that overgrown, fading stage of the summer garden, aren’t we? Still looking pretty good but everything needs a little pruning and a lot of weeding. This is the time I have to really motivate myself in order to do anything in the garden.
Oh, and I have to mow, as well.
I planted this container earlier in the summer, thinking that the Funky Patio needed some lush planting. Here it is the day I planted it:
And here it is today:
That sweet potato vine is even longer than it looks!
This container has been a real success. I’ll definitely be doing that again next year.
But, hold on there, Claudia – summer isn’t over yet. Let’s enjoy it while we still can.
By the way, I was on PicMonkey editing these photos and they’ve added about 18 new fonts. Yummy!
Happy Thursday.
Nice ~ it filled in beautifully. Do you notice your system bogging down after using PicMonkey? I have to run my “cleaner” everytime after I use it. Was just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the same thing? Have a great weekend (:
You flowers look WAY better than mine. We are all dried up here…thanks to this heat!!!!
XO Kris
It is loving all that summer heat and rain. You have some of my favorite summer flowers.
You have a green thumb, Claudia. Everything in my garden is going downhill in a hurry… Great pix!
Donna
What a lovely container garden! I like to plant large containers. It seems like I invariably plant too much in them and a few things don’t survive.
You can’t go wrong with a sweet potato vine can you? Love that chartruse green…
Boots is lying here in a patch of sun streaming through the window, and as the sun slides across the floor, he meows at it.
Jen @ Muddy Boot Dreams
Your container garden is lush and gorgeous. Throw some weeding motivation over my way, won’t you?
What a lovely container..Sweet potato vines seem to do very well even in the lousy summer that this one was..
Your container garden is looking very lush now. I love using the sweet potato vine too, as it really helps to fill out the pot for not much $. When we were young and poor and in college, my roomie and I stuck toothpicks into a sweet potato to balance it over a jar of water and let it root. We were rewarded with a beautiful lush green growing plant for about about 5 cents.
Love the green color of the sweet potato vine! Still the middle of August…summer is still here but winding down. I see lots of garden bed weeding for myself.~Hugs, Patti
I’m enjoying the new fonts too but have you noticed the different way one needs to add type now? I really preferred it the original way, typing into the lefthand box above the list of fonts – it seemed easier to maneuver the words around on the photo, and much easier to change the size of the font before. What do you think Claudia?
Your planter did fill in beautifully – like you, I enjoy planting potato vines to make a bright chartreuse statement in lots of garden spots.
Hope things are going well dear friend. Thanks for your kind comments on my Africa posts and pics.
Love, Mary
Ooh, I must check out Pic Monkey in a mo, thanks for the heads up :D
That container is looking glorious … don’t you just love the way they fill out and keep going to get you through the last of the summer. We have lots of pots of stuff at the front of the house and it looks better now than it has all year.
this is so pretty, Claudia. this is about the only kind of flower gardening I do…in containers. love the galvanized container!
Your green thumb is showing : impressive. Happy Friday.
That container is beautiful, Claudia! I love Sweet Potato vine… the color is so vibrant. And don’t you love to see how things fill in over the season? My little strawberry pot was that way, with small slips of lime green coleus and snippets of white impatiens, and now it’s overflowing! I do love summer and am sorry to think it will be over soon.
Claudia everything looks great!!! Boy I love sweet potato vines we have a lot here. I think they look great containers. Have a great weekend
This is the second time recently, that I have seen a Sweet Potato Vine pictured in Pretty Blog Land. Must mark that down somewhere, to remember for next season.
Not for me, but for the *Resident Gardner.* :-)
And Summer _is_ on the wane, is it not? An abundance of weeds, giving a kind of a late-lushness and an Oh-what-the-heck feeling. ,-) A feeling of… Oh-let-it-all-flourish for a wee bit of time… Before the cold hits them/us. :-)
Would this be a form of autumn-‘spring’-fever? ,-)
Gentle hugs,
“Auntie”