Butter and Honey

Time to Plant

11:34, Wednesday, June 10, 2009 .. 0 comments .. Link

I'm finally recovering from our Fair work - catching up on sleep and neglected chores - and so this morning I went out front to plant some of the lovely flowers we got from the Fair this year. The only problem with planting flowers is that I really, really needed to weed the bed first, which is being taken over by clover.

So out comes the shovel and the pitchfork to loosen the soil and make getting the entire clover plant out much easier. I pulled some weeds, got rid of some dead branches from the Coreopsis, and then dug some holes for three verbena and two geraniums.

In the very top left corner, you can see one of the verbenas. Another was planted in the opposite corner, and the third in a bare spot between the Coreopsis plants. The two geraniums went right in the middle of the beds. You can see that I still have quite a bit of clover to get rid of, but this morning was a start, and that beautiful color that catches my eye every time I pull out of or into the driveway will spur me on to finish the job soon!

I also planted a planter with three geraniums for my mother as a belated birthday gift (we missed her birthday because of work :-(

This is a new geranium -- called Strawberry Sizzle! See photo of tag below.

Since my mother had breast cancer, and since these are just such pretty flowers, I thought it would be perfect for her. The photo is a little bright because of the morning sunlight, but the blooms really are this HOT pink color, deepening towards the center.

This is the whole planter - the Strawberry Sizzle in front, pink to the left and a deep red to the right. I think she'll like it!

Did I also tell you that I've been canning lately? Husband bought a box of cherries for $20 last week, and out of that box I've gotten 14 half-pints of jam, 3 quarts of cherries (for pie or cobbler), a huge cobbler Monday night - nice and big and deep just like my mother-in-law used to make, plenty for eating, and we still have a good size bowl left!
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