This little guy is from one of the cosmo seeds I bought earlier but I didn't think I had planted one right there. Every time I walked past it I thought, "Is that a weed? I should pull it. Naaa, I'll just leave it and see what happens." Well this is what happened, it bloomed some beautiful yellow flowers. I still have some seeds left so I'll definitely be planting more next year since it's a annual and wont come back.
Isn't this dahlia beautiful? It's the first of the ones that I grew indoors to bloom. Okay I just fibbed to you, its
the first to not bloom all retarded and on the bottom of the plant like the white one below. All the ones I planted from seed are going to surprise me with their colors since I bought a variety pack. I love seeing the buds starting to open.
Okay I know the above looks a little pathetic, but it's the start of the peacock ground cover blooming. Come mid-August this plant will be covered in tiny blue blooms. Two of the three plants have grown so wide in the past year that I will probably have to split them.
Look how far the blanket flowers have come in just a few weeks! They're so pretty and really brighten the garden. They grew taller than I thought they would so I'll have to do some rearranging in the fall.
So, I have an area to start growing flowers. You've gotta tell me what websites you get your flowers from. Wal-mart and all these stores have ugly-we-all-look-the-same flowers.
ReplyDeletedirectgardening.com has the best deals and a killer selection.
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I buy my seeds from amazon.com.
Remember that we're zone 5 and lower, you can push to zone 6 if you baby the plant.