Potting Begins!

I made my first trip to the local nursery. Going to this place feels like a staycation for the kids and I. They have a tiny playground to keep children busy while mom browses and strolls and a fish pond with a fish food machine - for a dime - kids can get a handful of fish food pellets to toss in and watch the huge trout jump. The trout video is on my daughter's phone. I'll try to upload tomorrow.  

Here a nursery clerk helps me get my wallet out.  Breck is here supervising, as usual. 

We walk our wagon to the car. Our load is full of geraniums, viney thingies, goldilocks rocks, brachyscome, rosemary, thyme, basil and lemon verbena. 

As I pull in my drive, I notice the French lilacs are popping out. 

Daughter and I potting away. Working on the herb pot here.  

I changed up my flower boxes a bit this year.  I usually place a geranium in the center, the viney thing in front of the geranium, the goldilocks rocks and the brachyscome on the sides. I used to pot symmetrical, but I mixed up random colors this year. I have five identical boxes sitting on my deck railing. 

Below are herbs potted just outside the kitchen door. Rosemary, basil, thyme, lemon verbena. Apparently the lemon verbena is most aromatic in the evenings.  I'm ready to incorporate them into soups, teas, sauces, potatoes, chicken and fish.  

More tomorrow!  Happy Memorial Day!

Ciao!

 

Flower Pot Planting Day

Nursery Bounty. I finally got to some flower pots today.

This is last year's flower box not yet cleaned out.  Tsk Tsk Tsk.

I have five flower boxes to fill.  I picked purple Verbena, pink Geranium and this drapy thing.

Our planting day included a trip to the nursery and picnic lunch on the Dorset village green. 

We typically have a large vegetable garden, but we are simplifying this year.  These are the only herbs I wanted in this tiny pot.  Basil, Rosemary and Lemon Thyme. Tsk - those are dandelions on the ground next to this pot. I love dandelions and we don't weed kill.  They are beautiful and are medicine.

I love this old herb container.

Harleigh got busy planting the boxes with me.  Once I taught her how to lay them out, she did a couple on her own.  This is her boy kitty "Ginger Pye".  He follows her everywhere.

Finished!  Onward to some more impatiens to decorate my potting bench and hanging pots.

 Front entry way.  I planted impatiens in the pots for this shady area.  They should fill in nicely.  They're one of my favorites.  I made this door wreath last year.  If midwifery does not work out, I can always sell these by the side of the road.

 This is an old teak potting bench. The husband bought new for me years ago.  We've left outside a lunch of winters.  My next project is to decorate this up with potted plants as it sits next to our entry way.