A tired garden trellis is given a fun purple paint-job and a new lease on life, thanks to my hubby.
Iris ‘Immortality’ makes a return fall blooming engagement.
We lost our birch tree last year and haven’t gotten around to grinding out the stump. It made a nice pedestal for my mother’s blue pot of dianthus and a bit of orange portulaca trying to make a comeback for one more blooming before killing frost.
This hibiscus moscheutos ‘Tie Dye’ just keeps on blooming. It’s slowing down, but still putting out a few ruffled blooms every day.
A few years ago my neighbors bought a whole bunch of plants in the hopes of doing a major landscaping project. Pots filled with the promise of spectacular blooms awaited planting, but it seemed they would never get planted. In fact, I rarely saw my neighbors. At summer’s end, I noticed my neighbor lady outdoors, so stopped my gardening to chat with her a bit. She apologized for the “mess” in her driveway – a few pots of dead and dying plants sitting in a heap. I asked her what had happened. Apparently, unbeknownst to me, much like these potted plants, my neighbor’s marriage was shriveling and dying. Pointing to the pots, she said that if there was anything I’d like to try to save, to just take it. Sedum ‘Maestro’ stands in testament to the fact that, like marriage, plants need attention and TLC.
My garden helper, Smoky – a neighborhood stray who chose us as his family three summers ago.
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I do love the purple trellis. You still have some lovely blooms, the autumn sedum is always pretty this time of year!
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Thanks! I love the purple trellis too. A friend also gave me some drapery rods she no longer needed – the kind with the fancy ends. My winter project will be to spray paint those too and use them in next year’s garden as flower stakes/supports. I already have three in service right now holding up the floppy bits of my hibiscus.
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Red trellis, purple trellis … What more colourful delights await us? Hubby’s clearly a dab hand with the paintbrush. Not sure if I’d have the patience to properly paint them. Cats seem to have some innate sense of where to move in. Every pet I’ve ever had adopted me and I like to think that they know when someone’s going to care for them properly (being an absolute softie and sucker for punishment also helps).
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