Vickie Day Weekend

Ready to go to pot

     Yesterday, CC and I went to Greenscapes nursery of Rockwood and Belgian nurseries on Highway 7 to buy annuals for the many pots we put out on the front porch and the back patio.  It was quite crazy at the latter, but we got in and out quickly luckily.  It must have been hundreds of degrees Celsius in the shade yesterday, but we managed to get most of the planters planted and watered.  CC puts shards of terra cotta pots in amongst the plants to keep the squirrels at bay.  He finished the planting today and it's like putting an addition on your house - we now have an outside space to inhabit.  The hanging planter on the front porch contains Scaevola 'Whirlwind Blue', three 'Bonfire Orange' Begonias and three 'Sweet Caroline Raven' Sweet Potato vines.  Along the lip of the front porch are three terra cotta boxes each containing two 'Sonic Orange 08' Impatiens and one 'Sonic Light Lavender' Impatiens.

   
     On the upper, back deck  CC put a 'Minicascade Red' Ivy Geranium for a splash of colour that can be seen from the street at the bottom of our hill.

     The back patio has much more sun now that the $%@#@! next door cut down the mature Linden tree, so we are taking advantage of the increased sunlight.  I planted a terra cotta bowl-shaped pot with a central Euphorbia myrsinites (that's Donkey-tail spurge to you plebes), surrounded by 'Sundial Tangerine' Portulacas.

     CC did a very large terra cotta pot with a central lime-leaf geranium from last summer surrounded by three 'Papaya' Petunias, three blue Salvia and three grey Licorice plants.  In a strawberry pot, he planted Lettuce-leaf Basil, Lemon Thyme, Sage, Silver Thyme, French Tarragon, Greek Oregano, Curled Parsley, Tricolour Sage and Creeping Rosemary.  Salad days or what?!