We've had a few days of gorgeous weather around here. Warm, sunny days that are perking up my newly planted deck pots quite nicely. Not too hot to render them limp and lifeless and whiny (like someone around here gets when the temp goes above 84 degrees).
Like I mentioned in a previous post, I went for pale yellows, blues and pinks. Soothing colors. I threw a little of everything in each pot to give the deck the feeling of an unstructured English garden.
Hey - how did THAT get in there?
No orange allowed! That's what happens when you aren't paying attention when you are loading your cart at the garden center. Orange things sneak themselves into your cart.
There that's better. Peachy pink I can handle. Please ignore the weird, peanut buttery shade of our house. It will be painted soon. If our painter ever calls us back.
In another two or three weeks that lobelia will be spilling over the edge of the pot, quite fetchingly. The Bacopa too. Bacopa is the perfect flowering plant if you ask me. It's sweet little flowers bloom quite profusely and it comes in shades of white, lavender and pale pink.
You have to watch out for some plants because they will take a liking to your garden and spread unmercifully. Or they will bring giant alligator lizards into your house and let them loose. Like the Bella speciosa felinus plant. Tricky, that one.
Your deck pots are beautiful. I love lobelia and bacopa, too. I think I've only seen white bacopa-I'll have to be watching for colors.
Love your Bella plant, especially the black/white contrast. Truly a plant for all seasons.
Posted by: Karen | April 23, 2009 at 07:39 PM
Loving the speciosa felinus. Please send seeds.
Posted by: Liz | April 24, 2009 at 07:57 AM
Andrea,I love your flowers! But I must warn ou of another pretty temptress! Beware of the morning glory. She is your friend for awhile, but soon becomes jealous of all of your other flowers and starts to strangle them with her curly tendrils.
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Posted by: Meg Bennett | April 24, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Oh I have some of those, they do spread mercilessly. As a matter of fact, I started with one, and now I have 3.
Posted by: pam | April 24, 2009 at 06:31 PM
You didn't throw the orange geranium away did you????? Noooooooooo.
Posted by: Nicole | May 03, 2009 at 08:44 AM