Nighty Night

The garden has officially been put to bed.  The gigantimous (sp?) piece of black plastic is in place.

I would pick the warmest day in weeks to put plastic on the garden.  But hopefully this will cook whatever weeds are in the soil.  If not, I may just make this my new flower garden.  This would look lovely covered in sunflowers, marigolds and zinnias!

Of course, I couldn't go without any fresh tomatoes.  It's container gardening this summer!

There are even little green tomatoes on there already.  I can taste them already! Yumm-o!!

Happy Independence Day!

Happy Fourth of July, everybody!  Weather is great today....upper 70's, sunny, a great day to grill burgers and brats and then watch fireworks.  I can garden tomorrow!

Okay, you know I love flower surprises.  They happen all over my yard.  But....what is wrong with this picture.

Yes, those are regular purple cone flowers in with my dwarf orange cone flowers.  I'm really torn over this.  They are doing really well, but they don't belong here.  They belong around the corner in the big perennial garden.  If I leave them, they will probably crowd out the orange ones.  Yikes!

I really like how my color combos are looking this year.  It's such a departure from what I usually do.  The only problem are the snapdragons.  They were supposed to be shorter plants, but as you can tell from these pictures, that's not the case.  They look out of proportion with the other flowers.  Oh, well, They still add a nice pop of yellow to the pots.

This combo also looks great in my fancy pots on the front porch.

And I have three of these hanging baskets.

But, never fear, I still have lots of pink around.

These begonias look amazing.  They have tolerated the rainy June weather this year quite nicely.  The hydrangea has really enjoyed the weather, too.  It has gone crazy!

I wonder if I could put another one of these somewhere.  Hmmm.


Anyway, that's just a small part of my garden.  I promise more pictures real soon.  In the meantime, go out and enjoy the day!