Warning: Today’s post has nothing to do with running, maybe running around like a chicken, but nothing to do with lacing up my Asics and heading out on the trail…
In addition to running, I love gardening! I grew up on a farm, so I guess it sort of makes sense that I love digging in the dirt.
On Monday, I had a few extra hours between my morning clients and my late afternoon clients, so I stopped at my favorite nursery to pick up flowers for my deck and front porch.
I picked up red, white, and blue Wave petunias…
Sea of Waves
And planted them in a window box on my deck…
Red, White, and Blue Wave Petunias
And on my front porch…
Blue Waves, Spikes, and Vining Vinca
Next I found Mexican heather to plant with my ferns in my deck garden box; and caladiums to plant as stand-a-lones.
Mexican Heather and Caladiums
My favorite caladium leaves are the green and pink veined ones! These will get much bigger and be in scale with the pot in a couple of weeks.
Multicolored Caladiums
A couple of years ago I cut back on the number of flowers I plant each spring and put perennials (such as ferns) in some of my pots so that I don’t have to replant them each year. Brilliant!
Ferns from my mom’s garden
Somehow I managed to get all of my flowers planted before the rain hit and my late afternoon clients started arriving. I was practically sprinting around getting everything planted!
Do you wonder how I decide what flowers to plant? It is 100% determined by what this guy doesn’t like to eat!
Hungry Ground Hog
- Questions:
- Do you like to garden?
- What’s your favorite flower?
- Do you have any wild animal “pets”?
I love living vicariously through you and your gardening skills. My backyard is currently sod and dirt!
Your garden is as beautiful as you, Debbie!
Hate to garden. My wild animal is Chrissy the parakeet. Chrissy is Debbie’s Godchild.
Awww, I love Chrissy!
Thats a groundhog? We dont have those here.
Groundhogs are large rodents (you might have heard them called woodchucks) that love to dig deep holes and eat Debbie’s flowers!
I’m not much of a gardener. I’m pretty good at killing flowers sadly. I had hanging flower baskets on our front porch last year with impatiens, but failed to bring them inside for the winter. This year I got some begonias and so far they are still alive 🙂
We have a few ground hogs, but not as many as when we lived on the Tech dairy farm. That farm is overrun with them! I actually crashed Barry’s 4 wheeler into a big groundhog hole and flipped over the nose of it (I was bruised, but otherwise okay).
Wow, you’re lucky that you weren’t seriously hurt!