Since the red tip fotinas are gone from the front porch area, I decided to do something to hide the fact that the area where the fotinas were looks terrible.I do like how it turned out, although I think that I'll probably change stuff ... rearrange stuff a bit. But, here it is for now.
I think I need something to distract the look of that gas gage thing coming out of the side of my house. Who knows what, though. Maybe if I planted a crepe myrtle there or some such.
As I promised myself that I wouldn't buy any plants this year (unless I was given a gift card or some such), but the greatness of Weston Gardens I got a free plant today because they had a deal that you could take a four inch plant if you gave them a decorated egg. The choices were petunias, lantana, dianthus, or impatients. I almost took a petunia, but the dianthus were looking good and blooming already and since I wanted color, that's what I went with. I hope it lasts as long as the last dianthus I had (lasted 2 years!).
Here are more shots of the porch area. Notice Mr. Bunny has a new place to live for now.
So, on top of the rocks and pots and planting seeds and everything, I needed a way to remember what I planted where. I planted seeds last year and thought I had a way to remember what was what, but that didn't go very well. So, this year, since I'm trying not to buy new stuff for the garden, I decided to try to come up with some way of marking my pots so I know what seeds are what. I thought about chopsticks, but I don't think I have any and didn't want to go to Pei Wei to steal some. Then I remembered that I had bamboo skewers in my pantry.
Well, that half was solved, but then what do I do for the paper part to write on? I thought about post-it notes, but they would fade when they got watered. I looked around to see what I had and there it was! I had paint chips from the local Home Depot that I got when I was thinking about painting my kitchen. I knew they would hold up much better than just plain old paper and I really like how they turned out. I also liked that I reused and recycled some items for this and that I didn't have to buy anything and I have cool colors and tags for my planted seeds!
