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Time to get outdoors more.
This gardening season begins for me with a sense of newness. There are pansies blooming in groups. Pansies with ruffled petals. Purple and white pansies looking like they are rooting for the Minnesota Vikings. The diversity of pansy forms and colors is refreshing.
In the garden, ground and container, a pop of orange, I feel, livens up the landscape. An orange pansy, and a cute healthy one or two in other colors have been all I buy each year. This year, based on pansies blooming all summer long (shady areas) last year, I decided to buy more pansies. The gardening centers have many pansy varieties.
A hanging basket of verbena can be stunning as they bloom so well. New to me is a white verbena to brighten a shady space. Adding to that planter a small very red petunia, and blue lobelia will create a patriotic vibe.
Do you plan your garden color scheme each year?
12 comments:
Pansies are so versatile a bloom, varied colours and hardy in case of late spring frost. Love them!
My sweet hubby planted lots of roses that bloom year round here and we have Mexican petunias in the courtyard. We are trying not to change things up but keep it low maintenance around here! lol But I love pretty flower beds!
Marie,
Cool weather plants rule in the spring.
Diane
Less maintenance gardening is a good guide. Buying plants that reseed thremselves and perennials is also budget friendly.
Those are all lovely spring flowers. Ours in that vein are done and warm to hot weather is breathing down our necks!!
These are beautiful.
Hello Tabor.
I am glad it is time for hot plants as in no more worry about frost.
Thank you William. Your gorgeous tulip photographs are as much a welcome spring sight as the flowers are.
No longer garden ~ just have 3 deck baskets with very traditional geranium and vinca vine ~ Love the deck with its view and peaceful away from the crowds ~ Yours looks and sounds lovely ~ nature is so healing ~ Xo
Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Carol,
Your baskets, I believe, fit into the definition of a container garden. Ground or planters, we garden. :)
The Orange pansies in your garden are so pretty. I read one time that Orange is the happiest color.....and I believe that is true! ;)
~Sheri
Pansies are such a favorite of mine! What wonderful photos, all. I have containers for plants and not all that many of them, though I do try hard with the basil. But I have some pansies! Got to have pansies!
Jeanie, At the garden centers this year, they were full of pansies.
Basil takes an entire planter. Fresh basil leaves in sandwiches is a favorite.
Sheri,
There is a wallflower plant with cute tiny orange flowers that brightens a garden against so much green.
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