My sweet husband helped some friends move and they graciously sent him a gift card for Lowe’s…. AND HE GAVE IT TO ME! Better even still…. for FLOWERS! Whooooo HOooooo. I have the sweetest husband. (Side note: Rick is leaving for 5 days for Flight Safety next week, not by his choice, but still, it’s the busiest week of the kids’ lives with someone needing to be driven somewhere every single day… multiple times….. HENCE the kind flower gesture. Sort of a peace offering.)
I spent 60% of the money on lasting flowers and 40% on winter flowers… we live in Arizona, in case you are confused about winter flowers…. they are most likely YOUR summer flowers(marigolds, lobelia, sweet William, pansies, allysum, petunias, etc.) I’ve been impatiently waiting for cooler temperatures… which still aren’t arriving. It is about 85* F and it’s NOON, for goodness sake…. three days before NOVEMBER. Alas, I could wait no longer with the gift card burning a hole in my pocket.
So the photo above is a round flower spot that has been empty dirt all summer. So I was visualizing a colorful array of blooms, and then I threw in some height with the purple grass and found my bird feeder and assigned bird-food-duty to my youngest son. BUT, before all that happened, I was turning the soil in all my dirt patches around the yard and in this particular spot I dug up four socks. Perfectly good socks. Socks that all belonged to my youngest son, bird-food-boy. Socks that he took off to jump on the trampoline. Socks that our dog found neglected in the backyard… and so the DOG put them away. If only my children were trained so well. But no.
The backyard is clean and tidy for the first time since April. It’s wonderful to look out the kitchen window and see color again. Blessed relief. Here’s a few more peaks:
Below is fondly called the ketchup and mustard flower bed.
These don’t show up that great, but it is a pale pink hibiscus with trailing yellow vines hanging out of the bigger pot. The small pot is dark purple pansies and royal blue lobelia, my all time favorite flower.
And last but not least, the Sweet William on the patio table. We can finally eat outside again! Yippeeee! I love winter.
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