Finally, Able to Do Some Gardening

With the late spring and my garden man requiring some surgery, I was finally able to get back in the garden the past two days.  I spent some time at Paul and Sandy's purchasing plants for the containers.

In the front, I had spray painted the old urn planter earlier in the spring and decided to go with a yellow and orange theme again this year.  Last year's yellow-themed planter took me right through the fall.

The plants include a Butterfly Marquerite Daisy (upper right), Superbells Sweet Tart Calibrachoa hybrid (middle right), Silver Falls Dichondra (middle bottom), Campfire Fireburst Bidens hybrid (middle bottom left) and Sunsatia Blood Orange Nemesia hybrid. All are Proven Winners--and I've always had good luck with that brand. They all bloom to hard frost and require no dead-heading.

That's great gardening!

Two more planters frame the front steps.

The Blue-eyed Beauty Osteospermum are not heat tolerant 

but they were out early protected 

under the porch roof from late frosts.

They will bloom again in the fall.

The spring-fall daisies will be covered in the heat

by Superbells Sweet Tart Caalibrachoa

and Blushing Princess Alyssum.

Their blue-centered daisy-like yellow petals 

were joined in this pot by heat-loving Supertunia Honey Petunias

and more Silver Falls Dichondra.

And the urn in front and the two cache-pots on the door step

will look great with the teak bench on the porch.

Garden man scrubbed it with bleach and water earlier this spring

to remove some of the mildew and return it to its lovely wood-grain.

Now we can sit and enjoy a late spring day!