Note—I have already written this entry once. Netscape froze upon loading a page and I lost my original entry. So this one will be little terse b/c I just HATE it when that happens!
Brian, Joy, Jonathan, and I went to Lowe’s today, which had absolutely tons of plants to choose from. Don’t know why it didn’t occur to me to get there last week. I came away with a beautiful fuchsia in a hanging basket as well as some very pretty red impatiens (busy lizzies).
Around the electrical box in the front garden, I will plant a Texas mountain laurel on the street side, and on the other two sides I will plant some Carolina jessamine vines. I also have some African Sun daisies, full sun phlox, and other stuff I can’t recall at the moment that will go there. All take full sun and arid soil; good thing.
To replace the mostly dead arborvitae in a container on my deck in the back, I found a beautiful pink jasmine and also got a plant trellis for it. Even with my clogged-up sinuses I could smell it in the car on the way home.
My vegetable garden now has a cherry tomato plant (I don’t like tomatoes, but the ones Mom grows taste like a little bit of sunshine—glorious, and I resisted it until my last visit there), some Texas 1015 sweet onion plants, and a dill plant. I have a feeling there might be a few others but again, my memory fails me here.
To add to the flower bed back in the corner where the day lilies are, I got a spirea plant, which I have seen in other people’s gardens here and it seems to do well in our summers. Fingers crossed.
I did get some spectacular pale blue violas too. They are labeled as annuals, but I still have some popping up in a bed where a hanging basket of them had been two years ago, so go figure.
We’ll see how much I get done on Friday . . .
Finally, I saw a table and chairs for the deck that I liked and that are a reasonable price. I shall be taking Dale to view them this weekend.
Posted by elizabeth at March 7, 2003 12:08 AMHi, Liz,
I have found, in my readings, that many plants labeled as Annuals elsewhere, will often be perennials (sp?) down here in our lovely Zone 9. So, there you go. Your garden sounds lovely. Please tell B & J I said hello and hope that they are both in the best of health. Tell B I bought some honey at Central Market that was white hoping it would be similar, if not exactly, to taste as his. Wrong! Tastes like regular honey. Waaaah!