Mother Nature has determined that I need a day of rest. It’s been raining since last night and we’ll have thunderstorms today. To be honest, I’ve known this was coming and boy, oh, boy is it welcome! We really need the rain and I really need to rest.
I’ve been working on clearing out the garden beds on a daily basis as well as driving back and forth to the nursery to see what is available. Yesterday, I cleared the garden beds on the far side of the house. Later in the day, I took a run to the nursery and another plant on my list was available. I’m still waiting for the final 3 and then I’ll be done.
Just the beginnings, as these pots will look very different once the plants take off.
This is lobelia. I have it in the pot in the first picture and in another pot on my little blue chair, which I’ll show another day.
Nothing has been officially arranged yet, but it’s the usual; big pots of impatiens on the benches, as well as my geranium which I overwinter every year. It’s on the bench near the porch entrance. I have two hanging pots of impatiens and two hanging pots of scaevola – those beautiful purple flowers that are super dependable. The impatiens will last until the first hard freeze, as will the scaevolas, lobelia, and calibrachoa. I can’t afford to change out the contents of my hanging pots from spring to summer. What is there is there, and it has to last for the next 6 months. Oh, and the pansies, in pots just outside the porch entrance – they last the longest of all of the flowers.
I’ll take more photos after a little time goes by. Hopefully, I can get everything potted by sometime next week. I also sowed the seeds for morning glories and zinnias.
It’s tiring, but necessary. Don is so adorable. He knows how much I look forward to spring and gardening and every time I come back from the nursery, he greets me with “Did you find anything??”
Today, some rest for my back, some household chores, and an episode of Gardener’s World. Don has a gig at a winery this afternoon.
Stay safe.
Happy Saturday.
Your pots all look lovely. I’m anxious to start mine, but they’ll have to wait til we get back. I don’t want to add another chore (watering) to my kid’s duties while we’re gone.
Evidently we are in for a rainy, stormy Monday….so yard work is confined to today. Still a little to do, but the majority is done.
Hope Don’s gig goes well. Enjoy your day of rest! ;)
Thanks so much, Donnamae!
Stay safe.
beautiful plants and flowers and pots! quite happy for you to get in trips to the plant nursery and enjoy spring weather that both allows you to do one of your favorite things (gardening) and forces you to rest. hope your back feels better soon and – in case the forecast holds accurate – don’s gig is indoors.
i like to get the have-to stuff done first and early in the day, but have been sleeping hard (grief, depression, lots of hard changes and a very long to-do list) so now am using an alarm and forcing myself out of bed even if i slept only four hours. not what i imagined i’d ever need, but think it is helping so that will be worth it. been taking breaks to watch “the waltons” and “andy griffith”; also, last tuesday my sister and i spent the day in minneapolis and had some fun, a change of pace (including eight hours in the car in one day), stopped at a pretty and pretty big lake on the way home. those things and my family and God are helpful, too. hope everyone has things they enjoy, that get them through tough times.
happy, safe weekend to you, don and everyone else.
xo
kathy
Enjoy your weekend, Kathy. Rest.
Stay safe.
I’ll probably head out there next week to get a few things — some herbs to pot, some impatiens and lobelia as well (they do last well.) My geraniums made it through the winter — we’ll see how they flower. I may need to transplant into larger pots. I’ll take all the plants to the lake when I go for the summer — usually a whole trunk load!
It’s so nice to see the world waking!
It really is.
Thanks so much, Jeanie.
Stay safe.
You are off to a good start, Claudia! My Mom always said not to plant until May 15th so I always wait until then (it was her wedding anniversary so it is an easy date to remember)!
Depends on where you live. Here in the Hudson Valley, it’s either May 1st or when there is no more danger of frost. So I got to sow seeds a little earlier this year.
Stay safe, Ellen.