It's just the nature of gardening. I start the spring with great expectations and full of hopes and dreams, but not everything follows my plans. Here's some of my hits and misses as well as a few pictures of Bailey from our morning walk.
I call this part of the garden "caladium alley." I'm very pleased with them.
A closer look at caladium alley. I love these things, so colorful and easy to grow. The only problem is that they are so slow to sprout, they don't really look like anything until June. I started some earlier in my coldframe but still they just don't do much until it really warms up.
I had a great concept here that didn't work out. It's a metal floral scupture sitting on an iron table with the pot of morning glories underneath. The container wasn't big enough to support viable growth of the vines and there are zero blooms. I still like the idea, but will make some changes next year.
This pot of morning glories certainly did well (they are wilted in this picture but they pick up again quickly after some water). But there are no blooms on it!
Sun loving coleus and purslane. Two of my favorites.
Creeping jenny has done very well in these hanging baskets. I might add a caladium next year for color and upright growth.
This is the first year I've planted scaevola and I'm a fan. Will use more of it next year.
This is the right side of the flamingo garden and it needs more blooms. That whiskey barrel on the right isn't planted with much.
I love the sun-loving coleus.
The lantana is just now coming into its own. It's one thing that loves the hot weather.
This should be prettier. There's three different colors planted here but they aren't blooming!
This is the bed in the center of the driveway. There's just two pots here, one with the big fern and few pink impatiens for color. That pot is sitting in front of a stone arch and on top of that is a nice pot of caladiums. I need to clean up the rest of the bed and add more things here next year. This will be next year's garden expansion spot (along with another raised perennial bed).
This is the first year for this raised round bed and I'm pleased with it. The marigolds alone would have been enough but they looked so tiny when I first planted them. I was expecting more size and vigorous grown from that asparagus fern in the tall pot in the center.
This is just a blossom from a tuberous begonia that fall onto a hosta leaf. Thought it was pretty. What's weird is that I'm not aware of a white begonia planted nearby. The hostas have really suffered in the heat even though they are mostly in the shade.
More coleus. This is probably my favorite color.
Both pieces of the lotus flower that I divided early in the spring have now bloomed.
Cannas form a big part of the flamingo garden, and I like from for their upright growth and green foliage, but I probably need some different varieties. The red ones have unimpressive flowers. This yellow one is nice but it's the first bloom on it this summer.
This elephant ear is probably 6' tall and the leaves are huge. The heat has hurt them though. Next year I'll plant them in the shade garden.
Some puppy play pics
This is Bailey's favorite game. I think I will look into getting her a lure coursing machine. She loves to chase anything moving.
In case there was any doubt that she is a Malinois.
This is my shade garden. The pots look great but the in-ground hostas have crapped out in the heat. I wasn't watering them, only the pots. That was a mistake. Now I need to just cut them off because they really distract from the look of the pots.
Another elephant ear that I planted in a big iron pot in the shade garden. It is really too big and should have been planted in the ground or in a pot by itself in the back. Again, the heat has damaged the leaves.
Bailey on this morning's walk.
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