In the early days of BfloGirlWorld, I previewed my garden
ideas for 2014 – veggies, zinnias and my first theme garden, the Sci-Fi/Fantasy
garden. Here’s a quick update on those topics and others.
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| Harvest! |
Veggies – the vegetable
gardens are booming! June provided lots of lettuce as well as strawberries, and
July started the next round of harvesting: beans, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini
and tomatoes – cherry and “full-sized.” Some Roma tomato seeds I got for free
and planted in late May – not expecting much – are producing: there are lots of
little Romas growing! I have more beans and lettuce planted in containers right
now, as well as some radishes, which were the only thing I tried and was
disappointed by.
Zinnias – very
disappointing, thanks in great part to my bunnies L They’re starting to come
around now, but not as plentiful as they were last year.
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| Jedi Free Spirit |
The Sci-Fi/Fantasy
garden – there was one plant I left out of my preview piece, mostly because
I had given up on it. Guess what? It bloomed! I bought the Jedi Free Spirit
daylily a few years ago – it was actually my first Star Wars plant. For the last
two years, it grew foliage, but no flowers. I got discouraged, and wasn’t sure
what to do with it. When it started growing this year, I did what any gardener
would likely do – I talked to it. Told it how pretty it was, how it would be
even prettier with a flower or two (yes, gardeners do that!). Thank you for
listening Jedi Free Spirit! The rest of the garden is doing well too,
especially the Dark Angel Star Wars dahlia – talk about a garden take-over! I’m
already planning expansion for next year, even if it’s just to give everything
more breathing room.
A welcome surprise
– I have a corner on my front porch that is just made for shade containers, and
I’ve got a shelf unit that makes it even better. This is what the corner looks
like this year:
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| my shady corner |
I loooooove this little corner of happiness! Some of the
plants I used include Wizard Coral Sunrise Coleus, Fusion Peach Frost and
Fusion Glow Yellow Exotic Impatiens, Kong Jr. Green Halo Coleus, Electric Lime
Coleus, Million Kisses Honeymoon and Devotion Begonias, Vino Coleus, Superbells
Grape Punch Calibrachoa, Aurora Coleus, Ragtime Petunia and Fuse-ables Coleus.
all photos: paulathompsonfreelance.com
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