My mom brought me a gift of coleus on Friday (which survived the cold, barely), and my son actually volunteered to come with me to the garden centre while my husband was spreading black mulch in the backyard this afternoon. I'm thinking I must have done something right to deserve this.
On a different note, I have discussed with some of my gardening friends about "cheating" on the containers by buying hanging baskets and planting them as patio containers. That is almost what I did today. I bought premade arrangements and transferred them to larger containers, in some cases adding to them as well.
Here is the container combo my son urged me to buy:
I do think he likes yellow snapdragons.
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I am with your son on the snapdragons.. I adored them as a child and always begged my mom to get some.. I have 2 of that similar container.. the pink flowers (To which the name escapes me) smell absoloutely fab! I really like what you did at the side of your house, None of our grass survived there when they fix grading I would like something similar.
Karen, ich mag deinen Bodenbelag. Ich hätte so gern Pflaster, aber wir haben ein 70iger-Jahre-Haus mit Pflaster!
Sigrun
Danke für die Anmerkung. Ich denke, daß Pflaster ein wenig uninteressant ist. Aber die Blumen kümmern sich nicht. ;-)
Did you know that snapdragons are Löwenmäulchen in german? Funny name. As a child I loved to play with the blossoms because you could open the "lion's mouth" by pressing it on the sides.
you know what, after you first put that thing up about cheating, i thought, really, it's us that is cheated. look at our weather, if we were to plant our little tiny plants in may, pray that the weather doesn't kill them and allow them to just grow, it will be almost the end of the summer before the containers really have that "full" look to them. i've done containers in the past but hate to have to wait for the summer to be over before i'm happy with them, even with miracle grow, they still need time, which is something our summer really doesn't let us have. i've got more cheating to do as well. and good call on the addition of your name, i always say, better safe than sorry;)
Löwenmäulchen. Für mich ist es ein neues Wort.
Our name for the yellow lawn weed is dandelion, which comes from French "dent de lion" (lion's tooth), but in French they call it pissenlit, which is sort of like "wet the bed".
I also pinched snapdragons as a child. My son likes to do it too.
BSTS, you're right. We don't get a lot of time to enjoy our containers. Maybe that's why some of us love gardening so much -- we have so little time to practise it.
In Germany we call Dandelions "Pissblume" oder Löwenzahn.
Sigrun
I like the names "pissenlit" and "Pissblume", but in English we don't have a name like that. People would think it was too vulgar.
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