Sorry, I have no idea on the spinach. Next year I'm going to try my hand at growing my own lettuce though.

My birthday present from my wonderful mother:



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My momma is awesome! For my birthday tomorrow she bought the following for my garden:

- 4 Flame Purple Phlox
- 6 Vinca (Titan mix)
- 2 Coral Bells
- 2 Cooper's Ice Plant
- 1 Hydrangea

I bought myself 2 Ann Magnolias to accompany my Japanese Magnolia:


I'M SO HAPPY!!! My mom is even going to help me get all this stuff planted. I love my momma!

And a couple of pretty flowers for ya...

A purple Gladiolus flower:


My Delphinium blooming:


Will post update pics when we get this stuff in the ground!

Great birthday presents!
Happy Birthday tomorrow!

Thanks Claudia! We planted everything except the Ann Magnolias this evening. I'll try to put up pics tomorrow.

WooHoo! What a great present. Happy birthday!


Was thinking about the yarrow, do u have a shady area to put them in?

Thanks Jenn! I have been keeping the Yarrow in a morning sun/afternoon shade location. Even my mom commented on how poor they looked.

Mine looked bad last yr but this yr they are doing great. Plant them and see what happends

Oops, I took pics of the flowers we planted yesterday but forgot to post them.

Well today my wonderful mother went out shopping with me and bought me even more flowers. Got 4 Heather and a bunch of different color petunias. Will try to get pics tomorrow!

can your mom come visit me

cant wait to see!!!

your hubby is gonna be like HOLY HELL when he gets home!

jbealer wrote:

your hubby is gonna be like HOLY HELL when he gets home!

Yes he is!!! lol

Got everything planted today except those poor Ann Magnolias and she helped me finish off the edging along the back fence which I've been waiting MONTHS for my hubby to help me finish! I need to get rid of the hubby and keep my mom.

It's threatening to rain (oh I HOPE it does!) so I'll have to wait to get pics...soon though!

I'm going to do a quick photo dump because I'm tired and keep forgetting to post pics...

New stuff:
Vinca, Phlox, and Petunias


Flame Purple Phlox


Coral Bells


Hydrangea


Heather


Ann Magnolias (front sides, the back center is the Japanese Magnolia from earlier this year)


Update pic of my liriope with flowers, boy this thing sure has grown!

I like the purple flox!
Everything's looking really great, Val!!

Thanks! The Flame Purple Phlox has such stunning color, it really pops out at you and grabs your attention!

I just did some cutting back on the 7 Yarrow that I bought for the NC house, came inside and washed my hands. Then I noticed a smell. Stopped to smell my hands and they smell wonderful! It's definitely from handling the Yarrow but I didn't smell it when working with the plants but my goodness my hands smell absolutely fantastic now. Who knew?!

I think I'm gonna try to find some purple flox to fill in the rest of my lower retaining wall! Then I should be done - whew! Hopefully everything will fill in later this year and/or next year. (did you see my gardening thread? I finally started one! )

I saw!

I've been slacking on the updates lately, so here's one for you.

I've made a few changes and replaced a few flowers over the past few weeks. Won't go into much detail. One of my Stargazer Lilies bloomed last week but I kept forgetting to snap a pic.

The flower in the center of this pot is new, I have no idea what it is!


My hydrangea is blooming with another flowering head in the works...




One of ferns is starting to take off, can't remember which one this was though...


I did have to replace all the flowers that were in my flower cart on the front porch. I took them out of the flower cart before we left for our last vacation so that they would get watered by the sprinklers while we were away. All the flowers were thriving the day we left but when we returned they were all dead. So I had to buy all new flowers and restart the potted flower cart...

In one pot I planted two different Calibrachoa plants, different colors.


Close up of one:


Close up of the other:


In the long pots I put in three different colored petunias...

First, a lighter purple:


Second, a darker purple:


Third, a red:


Here's how my flower cart looks now...


Looks no where near as good as it used to but hopefully all this new stuff will take off and fill in fast.

Val, still looks good. my pansies in my handing basket are more then half dead the ones on the porch still look good and i think i have spotted 2 ferns coming up in my shade garden that i planted bulbs in march. I want a hydrangea. thats the one thing that sucks about vacation and plants you really need someone coming over to check on them.

Yeah, normally I have either of my neighbors check on things or put them in the backyard where it's shady most of the day. This time I couldn't do either since it was a holiday and my neighbors were also out of town and my shady spots in the yard were taken by plants that I had picked up for my MIL. It stinks, they looked so good too...oh well, starting over!