A Little Gardening and More

With my lull in stitching over the past two weeks and waiting on an order, I needed some serious gratification. I popped out a quickie to tide me over.

I am trying to do a few patriotic smalls so this fit the bit and helped me feel a bit better.

This pattern called for Happy 4th at the top, but I left it off for this quick piece. Isn't this pattern and finish adorable below?

The weather has been completely gorgeous today, but my pictures are from Friday. Spring started out with beautiful sunshine, but Thursday and Friday were a bit cool. Today was perfection. I will take a couple of months of that.

First up is my flower pots by the garage. I had pretty petunias last year, but they don't survive after May with the summer heat, so I am just going straight into all geraniums this year.

The pot in the middle has been there since last summer and survived the mild winter without even being moved into the garage for one night. It is a show stopper already. I purchased two more pink ones that I thought would match, but they were a different shade, so I got two white ones to separate the pinks.

In a couple of weeks these should fill up their pots and be a vibrant pop of color.

Onto my wannabe rose garden.

I have terrible soil, spotty sunshine in this area, and hot weather brings black spot which usually wins by middle of summer, BUT

I keep trying.

The first bed does better than the second.

So here we are in late March. We will check back in a few weeks.

There are five rose plants here: 4 hybrid teas and 1 grandiflora along with my day lilies.

I still need to redo my pine straw, but here we go....

Next up is my other brick wall of potted plants and the other rose bed which does not do as well.

Right next to the wall these roses still get enough light or something.

However, the further away from the brick wall I struggle each year.

I have 7 plants here with two of them being floribundas and the rest hybrid teas.

You can see the ones to the left just get a bit too much shade. I may regroup next year and just do something different over there. I do have one bloom on the floribunda. I guess you would say that is the first bloom of 2019.