"How are you doing?" Must be the Florida roots, but I don't mind summer, able to enjoy the fruits of the Spring labor in the flower beds..:))
Although I've had to scale way back, it still is effective and pleasing.
The medium height zinnias are blooming nicely on either side of the lantata plants in the front bed.
A strange thing, though - in the long raised bed between two large trees, I two years ago planted hostas down the center, perennials appearing again the next year, flanking them with bedding plants that do well in shade - usually red and white begonias.
This year, I merely cleaned the bed.
Every other of the 7 1/2 years we've lived here, in February violets sprang forth and were lovely until May - then died back in the heat.
THIS year, though, I went out to transplant ones that were strewn outside the bed to fill the one end that is 'less lush.'
That done, they all somehow have survived and are still flourishing this year!! No blooms, of course, but the Lord provided cover for the barren areas!
"That done, they all somehow have survived and are still flourishing this year!! No blooms, of course, but the Lord provided cover for the barren areas!"Wonderful! Very, very nice :-) I don't know how you do all you do! I worked so hard on my garden, and it is not looking so great right now, maybe all the hot, humid weather...lol, or maybe I don't have a green thumb! My morning glories look pathetic, my moon flowers look pathetic. My cosmos look pathetic. Wave petunia's...they are gone LOL Impatients are doing OK. Planted hostas for the first time this year, they look OK. My snowball plant (pink) is pretty. LOL, harvested about 10 strawberries, yes 10 ...Planted a bleeding heart, it is doing great...
This is not an actual photo of my plant :-)