How Does Your Garden Grow?
UPDATED TO ADD:
Remember everyone, this isn’t just for flower gardens and you don’t have to be the cover for Southern Living to participate. You are more than welcome to tell us about your favorite outdoor retreats. For example, is there a porch swing, a gazebo, a hammock, etc. where you love to take your morning cuppa and Bible? Do you grow veggies? Are you an apartment/condo dweller with a patio garden? We want to see !
The time is fast approaching for our Spring Garden Tour. I hope you are getting as excited as I am about visiting one another’s outdoor spaces to see what’s growing on! (hardy har)
I’ve been busy working in an area in front of my house that was really overgrown until recently. We’ve taken out a lot of dead plants, weeds, etc. and are slowly but surely replacing them with some of my perennial favorites. Remember, I told you I love low maintenance!
As a preview, here are just a few things I’ve been planting:
Russian Sage: Smells wonderful and butterflies love them. We already had two or three flying around before I ever got them in the ground!
Lantana: The girl at the nursery told me this little beauty would get enormous. I’m thinking I should have bought more than one but we’ll see how it does. They bloom yellow, orange, and pink and also attract, you guessed it, BUTTERFLIES!
Coreopsis:
I love the blooms on this little pretty. The foliage is really great, too – It just floats on the breeze.
Verbena: Another butterfly haven. If you plant it, they will come…..
Vinca: The only annual I’ve planted so far. They love hot, full sun so I’m hoping they will do well where I’ve planted them.
Lavender: I’ll be planting this in a pot for now. I can’t even describe how great it smells!
I got all of these plants at Lavender Mountain in Rome, Ga. I’d never been there before but, girls…oh my goodness. Their garden section is just luscious. The darlin’ woman working there was an enormous help in choosing the right plants for the area I needed. I have no idea how to group flowers so I am so glad a pro was there to give me a few pointers.
Well, that’s all I’m telling you for now except that as of this morning I have all of this in the ground and hopefully it will fill in a bit before the Tour. Or better yet, I hope it all isn’t dead before then. I took a few pics today to be safe.
So don’t forget – Mark your calendars and join in! I’ll put up a Mr. Linky on Friday morning for you to link your post.
I can’t wait! :)
So pretty! I wish I could smell the lavendar. This is going to be a fun time–this spring garden tour.
This is the first time in over a week that I have been able to open your site. I have tried on our lapop and PC. I could see the sidebars, but the middle was blank white. And I couldn’t get any of the buttons to work. Isn’t that weird?
So good to catch up with you this lovely Saturday morning, Lisa!
Love,
hollly
PS The Toby Mac song nearly scared me to death–I had it turned up prtty loud and didn’t know it. Hee hee!
I’m not a gardener, but I do have some flowers outside. Hubby lovingly tends to them (thank goodness!). I’ll post pics later… :)
Love yours…
Heather
Oh I so wish I had a green thumb. Mine’s as brown as they come! I admire people who can plant and grow things.
Hugs,
Susan
Un Bee Leavable
I have a hard enough time getting my hubby to mow the yard garden of weeds that attract bees and the smurf villages (wild mushrooms) that have been springing up overnight. How do you find time to garden? Seriously. How much sleep do you get? It’s just not normal.
I tried.. I really did! I even planted a few things but it’s hot and I’m pregnant and the weeds are taking over… I might share my basil plant, two tomato plants & my potted petunias but that’s all that remotely looks decent.
Seriously it’s like a gazillion degrees outside. Maybe next summer I’ll be more adventurous… when I’m not growing another human! I just don’t have much energy to grow anything else! :)
I am so ready for this. I must admit I took pictures several weeks ago because was in full bloom. See you Frdiay!
Oh just look at you girl!! I really need some lessons on gardening! Great Pictures! Have a good week!
I’m so excited to be be joining in!
I love the vinca that you planted. I had some last year and it did really great in the full-sun spot where I planted it.
Can’t wait to see the rest of your garden!
And I don’t know how I could have missed it all this time…but I just discovered the Bible study that you have here. I am so excited…I am going to start it this week. Thank you SO much for the work you put into it and for making it available to all of us.
Gardening is like lending God a hand. SO good for the eyes and so restful for the soul. So much beauty and pleasure in a tine leaf of lavender. We shouldn’t need much more in order to be convinced of God’s love for the World and Man.Thank you.
This sounds interesting and fun! I recently posted a blog on this very thing, so I look forward to participating in the Spring Garden Tour!
Blessings,
Nancy
I can’t wait either, I have been taking lots of pics! :)
I’m definitely planning on joining! As for my garden areas, some of them look great, and some of them look really awful. Maybe I’ll post both :)
And I just whacked the nandina–it’s other name is Chinese bamboo, and I figure bamboo can take a beating, right? We have it on the sides of our deck, and it was growing up over the railing, so I had to get pretty ferocious with it! You’ll have to let me know how you treat yours!!
i thought my mom was the only one who takes pics of flowers. just
kiddin