Garden Work

Wednesday morning I spent 2 1/2 hours working to plant pots with annuals. The previous day I had dumped all the soil from the pots into our very large wheelbarrow adding 2 1/2 bags of potting soil and vermiculite as I went. I wished I'd had some slow release fertilizer to add but didn't.  I wasn't sure if I had enough soil but when the task was done I had enough to fill a small rectangular window box.

Here are some photos of some of the pots I planted.

A red canna in this ceramic pot.  I couldn't find the grass I had last year so settled on the canna.  This pot was Garden Club silent auction item two years ago.  Quite a bargain.

These 4 extra large pots I usually plant with 5 plants, but with prices what they are I settled for three: blue salvia, whitish dusty miller, and red million bells/calibrachoa.  Red, white and blue!  The pots need to be distributed around the deck yet.

The local garden center I use has single pots of three plants for sun or shade.  I got one of each and placed the sun one in this pot we got years ago, 2005, from our architect when we moved into The Lodge which she designed for us.  She had planted bamboo in the pot but that never lasted so I've used it for other plantings through the years.  It's very heavy so I moved it empty to this spot to fill it and plant.

Here are the tags for the three plants which will look a lot better once they settle into their expanded space.

This coal bucket I picked up at a house sale of a neighbor's. Before I planted I spray painted it blue, let it dry while I planted other things then came back to plant this shade assortment that also came in a single pot.  I'm hoping I can keep the handle up.  See the stick at the base of the handle to try to keep it up?

Another yard sale find a number of years ago I planted with impatiens.

4 plants of basil and 4 of cilantro went into the herb garden.  Cilantro to the right was very tall but I expect it will recover.

I also planted two pots of red geraniums and to large pots with red begonias that I divided out of a hanging basket - a Mother's Day gift. I added salvia and a white bloomer which I don't recall the name.  I'll have to take pictures of those pots another time.

In other news the peony Emily gave me last spring has two buds!

The Siberian iris has opened.

I leave you with a view of the rock garden which is doing very well in its second year of expansion.