I love flowers!! I guess I learned it from my Mom. I remember her flowers at our "little house" in MN. I remember where the pansies were and how they came up every year and that the colors would change as they cross-breeded. I remember the beautiful begonias across the north side of the house. And I remember the big, um... not-so-pretty (in my humble opinion) cracker-jack marigolds all along the side of the driveway. So, now it's ro surprise to me that I like to spend lots of time and energy - okay, and money too - on my flowers. I teased Keith this year that I'm like Mom: go to the greenhouse and buy flowers, plant them, go back to the greenhouse and get a few more, plant them, go to the greenhouse for just one more thing, and come home with a few more than one, get out another planter because I have too many flowers....
This spring I was pleasantly surprised to see some pansies coming up and blooming almost as soon as the snow melted! I guess that flowerbed is the place for pansies! I also have a fair number of perennials that I've acquired over the last few years. It's so much fun to see them coming up without me doing anything!
This year it seemed like planting took a long time since I did it in one and two-hour segments. But, it was fun. I like containers since you can put them anywhere without making a flower bed. Favorite flowers? Hmmm.... Pansies, geraniums, impatiens, sunflowers, lobelia, lilies. Oh, I could go on and on. Favorite flowerbed? The big one along the side of the patio. I'm doing it all in red, yellow, purple, and orange. (Except on clump of shasta daisies that I don't have any other place for.) Before we moved to this house, I would never have had orange flowers. But Phyllis had some great orange perennials here and I sorta fell in love. :-)
So now a lot of things are blooming, but we're not yet at "full strength". We'll see what the summer holds. Often the plans that I have in my head don't turn out like I wanted. So I try something different. It's not like I'm a master-gardener or anything. I'm just having fun. I'm so thankful that God created beauty - and beautiful flowers!!
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This is one of the reasons you really need a digital camera!! This post needs some pictures... :-)
Rhonda took the word right out of my mouth...fingers in this case. I can appreciate your love for beauty though and can almost see it all in my mind. But a picture would be so much better!
That is such a neat part of you, Jenni. You appreciate beauty around you. It's a good thing, too. If it weren't for your eyes, all I would see is weeds. But because of your appreciation, I see beauty.
awwww.... thanks honey. Okay, girls, I'm going to get started on that camera thing soon!
I love flowers! I can't wait until I have a place to grow my own.
Good luck picking a camera...there's a million to chose from!
I just realized that I didn't comment on this post. How unacceptale is that? Peace out dude.
oops - here's the B for the above unacceptable (these boxes need spell check! I do this all the time!)
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