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Or at least plant them!
What flowers are on your "to plant" list every year? Or do you have a bunch of perennials and if so, which ones?
It's a guarantee we'll buy impatiens for the patio because it doesn't get a ton of sun and those always do well back there. I tried snapdragons last year and they just got out of control and too tall for my liking. I think I also got dianthus and I let them stay in the pots/planters and those are seeming to come back this year so that's cool and makes me feel like I'm getting free flowers. (Remains to be seen if they'll bloom just yet so we'll see.) I hate petunias but somehow always end up buying them because we have very few interesting choices for annuals in my zone unless you go buy seed and we're always on vacation at the prime time to care for them and I don't want to come home to a house full of gnats. I planted cosmos out front last year and they were nice but I think I'm just sticking with what comes back and saying screw it to annuals out front since we're never out there. I'll just have to weed every few weeks since those have taken hold early. Lord forbid it's something pretty!
I feel like I've tried every perennial there is. Our side yard has always had a lot of clay and I've mixed in every kind of soil and tilled it but to no avail. The only thing that keeps coming back are the phlox, lavender and the rosebush I decided to give a go in 2020. That's going to have to be enough because it's just too much to try to remember to go out and water. Hydrangeas can take a flying leap. I can't count how much times I've tried that. It does look like after 4 years our lilac bush is ALMOST ready to try to bloom. I'm not holding my breath but my Lord it's basically been two green sticks all that time.
Safe to say I have a green thumb when I want it but by July my resolve taps out.
What flowers are on your "to plant" list every year? Or do you have a bunch of perennials and if so, which ones?
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I am looking forward to getting our patio all set up again. I just hope we can break the cycle of getting it nice and perfect looking only for it to be too hot to use or to want to even go out there.
ReplyDeleteI don't have particular flowers that are my favorites for outdoor growing. We used to do several different kinds, but the area we did it had the soil change over the years and no matter how much we dug up, changed, added, etc., growth would just be spotty. So now we have a purple prickly bush there instead and I buy various container plants and place them around the bush and various other places. I do still like to look at old pictures of when the hubs did an array of marigolds in the autumn that were stunning in color.
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