My four new additions to the garden from yesterday look great this morning (Dianthus barbatus "Heart Attack", a Blaze Heatwave sage and two Agastache "Acapulco" Orange). The agastache has a fruity citrus smell that is amazing and the color is just down my alley.
The Blaze sage:
and Dianthus Heart Attack:
Some of us HAVE TO GET BUSY. My friend, Joy, just called to ask me out to lunch at Logans in Ft. O...........naturally I can't turn down a lunch invite. So gardening has to be done this evening.
Checked the seedlings and was disappointed to see that some of my zinnia seedlings look bad (like they have turned to mush) maybe because of so much rain. I'll just have to try again on some of them I guess. I am almost afraid to look really good at some of the other containers, just hoping they are not suffering from all this rain and not being put out into a bed.
7:30PM
I finished replacing one of my Annabelle Hydrangeas in the back bed with one that was in a container. The one in the bed had not faired well through winter and looked a little shabby. The one in the container was looking really good and actually matched the size of the mate to the one I removed. Hopefully with a little tender loving care the shabby child will become beautiful. I also pulled most of the wild "sorta" pea like vines that had become plentiful in that back bed.......they would have taken over shortly. I must weed the rest of that bed, fertilize the plants in there and add more mulch to retard the weeds for the summer.
I will start planting out seedlings tomorrow. I believe next year I will follow the lead of "Token" from the WS forum and plant out in Feb and March. He has photos of marvelous looking plants that have grown and look very mature. I don't think it is smart to keep these seedlings in the containers so long, as they begin looking spindly.
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