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Dawn. Yes, I'll take some pics this summer and hopefully our garden will reward us with lots of colour. Happy gardening!
BC
I hope you will treat us to a peek when your new colour scheme is in bloom.
We do hanging baskets with moss but not the pots. In the hanging baskets we usually but 12-15 plants, sometimes we make bigger ones. The one I posted was extremly big, I think over 30 plants but we had so many bedding-plants last year and just put them everywhere. Not so lucky this year, as I mentioned. I send an other pic where you can see some of the pots, I like lobelia and verbena and ivy geranium (thats what you see in the pots). This year I'm looking for orange and more blue flowers - think I got a little tired of all the pink last year.
BC
That is really spectacular. I have never had such success with hanging baskets. I think I used difficult soil and they just dried out with a bit of unintentional neglect in my earliest gardening days. Now that I spend more time in the garden, I should try again. I've become almost flawless when it comes to giving the flowers a good splash on dry days.
How many plants do you set in the pot, roughly? Also, can you tell me about the moss pots? I'm not sure I've seen those before.
I like geraniums too and we usually have lots ,DH propagates them in the fall but this year we lost almost all the seedlings during a cold spell (the little green house just wasn't good enough). Now we had to go out and look for ivy geraniums. I post a pic from last year, we put most of them in moss baskets and they do really well.
BC
I love lobelia, especially my favourite dark blue. I really like the paler blue also-must try that one day.
I'm definitely putting geraniums in the garden again this year. I tried a few different colours in the last 2 years, and they do so well in my front garden. I actually enjoy going about and dead-heading them to encourage the new blooms.
spending all our money on an interior reno so the pots are low maintenance and cost this year. Its been such a beautiful Easter weekend I want to do so much more but ... it seems it all costs money - except the weeding that is!
My sister is a representative in Calgary and supplies all the flowers to the Home Depots in Calgary. It is true that you are alot earlier out West then us. She often talks about when her season starts. You're so lucky!
In January 2003 I began all my weeding, which was really early. It was such a mild winter here in the west. I don't recall us needing snowboots at all that year. This past winter, I think we had a couple of days with the white stuff. We learn to be quick about letting the kids get out there and play in it, as it is often gone by the next day.
I usually don't set purchased annuals out until either Mother's Day or the long weekend in May. I chose that time in copying a former neighbour, who always set out a mass display of Impatients around that time.
I'm far from planting! We still have quite of bit of snow. It's nice if you can plant now, it prolongs the summer season. Last year, I just planted July 15th because we had frost up until then. Usually I plant the second week of June. I hope we'll have an earlier summer this year!!
I haven't added much that is new yet this year. I have a lot of weeding to catch up with, unfortunately. Last year was the first year I got my front yard gardens looking rather good, but I slacked off on weed upkeep in the late summer. However, I have been plugging away at it for an hour+ each day for over a week, and the end is in sight.
I can't wait to start adding new things. I have a couple of new Erica Heathers and a California Lilac in pots that I must place, but that's it so far.