I ADORE growing beautiful flowers, Donna - and looking at them always REAFFIRMS my belief in the CREATOR OF ALL LIFE!!! Thank you for posting this about what you do to offset the stressful 'aura' of today's world.
I ADORE growing beautiful flowers, Donna - and looking at them always REAFFIRMS my belief in the CREATOR OF ALL LIFE!!! Thank you for posting this about what you do to offset the stressful 'aura' of today's world.
About half of our yard is flower beds. This time of year it's 30 min to an hour a day most days, more on the weekend. I have been transitioning to more perennials in the past few years but you can't beat annuals for continuous color. Of course the MO season is roughly March - Oct/Nov with some random clean up days in the winter. But I also have a lot of house plants. Have a few pepper plants on my deck but have mostly given up on vegetables as we have too much shade and too many squirrels/rabbits/raccoons.
WOW--our growing season here in southcentral PA is from late April to late October and I have chosen to stick with "annuals" for my yearly "plantings". My friend, Jeff, with whom I cohabit is a magnificent gardener and landscaper - he took the "tangled mess of illogical plantings" all around this condo he bought in late 2019 and now 5 years later...it is pristine and SO magical to observe as his perennials are usually a delight. He has had to "move around" some of them as they weren't getting sufficient sun to thrive. He finally found a perennial that thrives in "shade" - called ASTILBE--do you know of it, Donna? I am an avid gardener...but not as knowledgeable as Jeff. I wish I could share some "BEFORE" and " AFTER " pics of this condo!!
KEEP ON PLANTING, Donna!! As the saying goes..."You're closest to God in a garden!!"
I ADORE growing beautiful flowers, Donna - and looking at them always REAFFIRMS my belief in the CREATOR OF ALL LIFE!!! Thank you for posting this about what you do to offset the stressful 'aura' of today's world.
About half of our yard is flower beds. This time of year it's 30 min to an hour a day most days, more on the weekend. I have been transitioning to more perennials in the past few years but you can't beat annuals for continuous color. Of course the MO season is roughly March - Oct/Nov with some random clean up days in the winter. But I also have a lot of house plants. Have a few pepper plants on my deck but have mostly given up on vegetables as we have too much shade and too many squirrels/rabbits/raccoons.
WOW--our growing season here in southcentral PA is from late April to late October and I have chosen to stick with "annuals" for my yearly "plantings". My friend, Jeff, with whom I cohabit is a magnificent gardener and landscaper - he took the "tangled mess of illogical plantings" all around this condo he bought in late 2019 and now 5 years later...it is pristine and SO magical to observe as his perennials are usually a delight. He has had to "move around" some of them as they weren't getting sufficient sun to thrive. He finally found a perennial that thrives in "shade" - called ASTILBE--do you know of it, Donna? I am an avid gardener...but not as knowledgeable as Jeff. I wish I could share some "BEFORE" and " AFTER " pics of this condo!!
KEEP ON PLANTING, Donna!! As the saying goes..."You're closest to God in a garden!!"