Saturday, April 18, 2009

Lady M -- Buying Flowers

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First... Lady M. My beautiful niece, Marcy... who lives across the country from me in Puyallup Washington... has started a blog. She is married to great man and has two wonderful children. Marcy has decided to home school her son... so she has her hands full for sure now. Marcy likes photography like me, but her blog is about her beautifully decorated cakes. Please make her feel welcome and comment on one or two of her cakes.

I planted a few flowers this weekend. I wanted perennials that would bloom from spring to first frost.

I took these pictures with my old Sony F717... it is lighter in weight than my newer camera. My arms are sore from digging.



As we were walking into Lowe's we spotted the pots with Purple Verbena and Purple Salvia. I liked them and put them in the cart. The verbena is the perennial type from what the girl putting plants outs said... but who knows, she may know about as much about plants as I do.

Purple Verbena
Purple Verbena

Purple Salvia
Purple Salvia


Frank put some potting soil in the cart and then went inside Lowe's to do his shopping. I wanted perennial plants that would bloom from spring to frost. I bought two Homestead Red Verbena and two Dwarf Coreopsis.

Homestead Red Verbena
Homestead Red Verbena


Dwarf Coreopsis
Dwarf Coreopsis


Then Frank joined me and on the way to the checkout we spot the beautiful Aurora Light Blue Delphinium. Frank loves blue. He picked out the healthiest looking plant, but its blossoms haven't opened yet.


Aurora Light Blue Delphinium
Light Blue Delphinium

I know not many plants, but for me who hasn't done much digging in the dirt in a long while... it was a job. I moved a couple of mexican petunias around and a couple of irises. I'll take more pictures as time goes on.



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8 comments :

  1. Wow your niece is up my way! She's a great cake decorator! Looks like you are having some lovely weather today and those flowers are all so gorgeous! I especially like the Dwarf Coreopsis. It's so vibrant.

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  2. It looks like you made some lovely choices. I can't wait for planting time!

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  3. I'm not sure my first comment to you was accepted. I was bragging on your pretty choice of flowers. Also, I tried to leave a comment on Marcy's blog but could not but I did add myself as a follower. Her "Police" cake is beautiful.

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  4. Hi Zaroga,
    These pictures are great! I really like Verbena as it is faithful to come up and bloom year after year. When I was a kid (a hundred years ago) we had a huge bed of red Verbena on either side of the front walk.

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  5. I am glad you posted yours! I did research on what to plant, hope I will have luck! Les said he would help me tomorrow to get my feeders and hanging baskets up.

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  6. You picked out some wonderful perennials! I love salvia, and that purple is beautiful!
    My muscles are pretty sore too from all the digging I've done. I ended up moving and dividing 12 perennials Sat.
    I'm off to visit your nieces blog!
    Terry

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  7. Ah spring. I love looking at your pictures. I have no flower beds yet. Curse new construction and the builder for the 2 inches of dirt and 2 feet of of rock quarry debris!

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  8. You always have great pictures.
    Thank you for your comment on my train trip.

    Mountain Mama

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