I think this is about the latest spring we’ve had yet.
Although I do recall previous June’s being ‘not-so-lovingly’ called “June-uary” around here.
It seems it’s been crazy weather EVERY WHERE this spring though. So many places hit so hard.
With a couple of nice days here, it was time to get planting! Hubby, four of the kids and I, hit the local shop on Sunday to pick up shingles for the roof of our new porch, and some flowers.
We took a look at the ‘ready-made’ pots and hanging baskets, took one look at the prices, and decided to d-i-y (do it yourself). We d-i-y quite a bit around here! We like it and it saves a ton of money! Ready made is always so much more expensive.
We picked out enough flowering plants for 4 hanging baskets, and 2 large pots. When we divided what we paid, it was the same price per each, as it would have been for the cheapest baskets they had ready made, BUT, those had cheap flowers in them and only one type of flower per basket.
We didn’t want the cheap ones, we wanted the pretty ones with LOTS of color and variety! And that’s what we’ve got now!
I even splurged on some Calla Lily’s, one of my favorites! I’ve never bought Calla Lilly’s for myself before, they were always too expensive, but these smaller ones were very pretty, and the price was alright since I just bought two. One for each larger pot for the bottom of our deck steps.
I can’t wait to watch them grow!
This basket doesn’t look like a whole not now, but I expect within a few weeks with some sun and a little rain, we’ll be seeing some overflowing going on!
For mother’s day, my son had taken me shopping for some plants. I finally found something that thrives in our dark flower bed next to the house.
Hostas! I don’t know why I didn’t think of them before. I had hostas on our previous city lot, and they always did great in the shade. I guess I was always too busy thinking ‘flowers’ to even think of simple greenery. So glad I have something pretty in there now. I have two, but I think I need one more. They aren’t cheap though!
Remember I mentioned that I have no garden, and how silly that seems on a five acre hobby farm?
Well, I now have TWO gardens. Hee hee. They are small, but I think they are awesome anyways. To put a garden in here, we’d need to build a fence, a very high fence. We have a lot of deer, and rabbits. Because we’ve had our home up for sale, we just couldn’t see putting the money into a large garden area if we were just going to be moving anyways. However, 4 summers later, and still no garden, and still no sale, I wanted at least SOMETHING this year.
In the city, I had a big garden. Isn’t that funny?
So we’ve been discussing at least making some garden beds, but wood isn’t cheap either, if you want to do it right!
When hubby was tearing down the back step, he turned the two side steps over, and what did he find? The steps were made like boxes! TWO boxes!
How perfect! I know the lettuce is all a little cramped, but hey, you make do with what you’ve got and I’m not complaining!
We put Sunflowers, two tomato plants and a pepper plant in the other box.
I know it’s not much, but at least we’ll have home grown salads this summer!
