Two Done! ?? to Go!

Finally! I just couldn't wait any longer. I planted two containers today. No, the roof isn't quite done and the patio is still a mess, but container envy got the best of me.

Rose and I went plant shopping, yet again, yesterday. She was looking for a few specifics and I was just getting started. I have had all spring-well winter too- to decide what I wanted to do with most of my pots and barrels, but when it came time to actually put my ideas into action, I froze. So I did what any beginning gardener would do. I went with tried and true.

I love wave petunias and they have always done very well in the barrels. This is one variety that does what it promises. Waves and waves of blooms, no dead heading, and very little care needed. Earlier this year when we attended the seminars at the garden center I found these wire baskets that sit on a raised ring. I had envisioned putting them in the barrels with something cascading down among the lower level plants. I sorta did that. The first one has pink waves in the top and
Supertunia 'Boudeaux' in the bottom with vinca. By the way, the vinca is some that comes up every year from a long ago plant that escaped a container. In fact, I give a lot of it away each year and pull it up where it grows unwanted.

This one has pink wave in the bottom along with the vinca and purple wave in the top. I am not sure these are totally done. I may plant something white in each... we'll just have to see.

I do have a rose in bloom. This is a miniature we planted many years ago and I don't remember the name. I almost missed it. It's in a small bed around a light pole and I have cone flowers there. Well, you know how well cone flowers reseed. When I saw a small dot of orange, I investigated thinking it was trash from the roof. We are now minus a few cone flowers!

An Iris! Besides having container envy, I have had iris envy. Mine must be a later variety. I have this pale purple and a white, but so far this is the only bloom. Several buds though. Speaking of iris, I am going to get into my mother-in-law's patch this fall. She has some of the really old fashioned ones-purples, yellows, and that kind of bronze one. She has offered in the past and I never took her up. But now with her in the nursing home, it seems important that I keep some of her flowers going. Maybe even to hand down to the next generation.

And now for a roof update. The shingles are all on and they are working on replacing soffits. I would think tomorrow, if the rain holds off. But surely by Monday! Of course it will take a day to pick up the mess. Is getting a new roof always this messy? The final job will be taking a magnet that's on wheels around the yard and driveway to pick up all those nails that seem to appear with any type of home improvement.

The other news- I think we have the Internet problem fixed! It seems I was put on the south west signal and with the trees now in full leaf I wasn't picking it up. Of course the main reason is that I am south east of the tower(or what ever it is). So the nice repair man changed it.

Well, I am rambling, I know. So I will close by wishing you a wonderful weekend of gardening or what ever you chose. Us-we get to mow and rake and them mow again!