photo by Lynn H. Wyvill
Another trip to the garden center and more plants - gerbera daisies, red and purple salvia, petunias, geraniums and a pot of mixed calibrachoa and lobelia. I love all the colors and textures. I bought some hostas, too, because we have some shady spots.
I was going to pot them myself, but the long-time gardener in the family, aka husband, has a “recipe” of mixing soil and fertilizer so he took care of that part. I was labor, putting plants where I wanted them and watering them. We put the dahlias out front until the zinnias come up, then we’ll move those out back.
Our sunpatiens were hit by frost. We think we’ve salvaged a couple of them so we’ll plant them and see if they can bounce back. Everything else is doing really well.
This weekend we plan to power wash the patio and furniture. So many articles talk about treating your outdoor space like a room and we do. We even have paintings to hang!
The surprise in all this is that for the first time, I’m really into this gardening thing. I’m having so much fun shopping for plants and decorating the outdoors with them.
I’m eager to see what shows up in the garden centers next. My husband asked how much more I’m going to buy. He said he’s running out of potting soil. I told him that was easy, we’ll just buy more when we buy the next load of flowers! I have more pots to fill!
He’s begged the neighbor not to give me any more gardening magazines, which is what started all this!
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Lynn H. Wyvill grew up in Washington DC where her favorite activity was sitting under a Japanese red maple tree, watching clouds create pictures in the sky. As a writer, she finds peace and inspiration when hiking in the woods, strolling on sandy beaches, and observing nature’s show in her backyard. Those experiences are captured in her first book, Nature’s Quiet Wisdom. Before writing books, Lynn worked as a radio/TV reporter and writer for the US Department of Agriculture and owned a consulting business that trained professionals on the creation and delivery of effective presentations. She is a lifelong learner, avid reader, small town explorer, and dedicated theater attendee who lives in beautiful Virginia with her husband.