In my garden I primarily focus on growing vegetables. I am trying to grow a few flowers this year so I can expand my gardening knowledge. I planted some marigolds from seed in some decorative pots. I also planted some zinnias around my mailbox from seed. I bought some impatiens seeds, but have yet to plant them. I have a few endless summer hydrangeas that I planted a few years ago, and this year I planted about 20 fashion azaleas along my fence. Most of the flowers are in bloom now so I thought I would post some pictures on their progress.
Endless Summer Hydrangeas - I bought 4 of these from Lowes about 3 years ago and these have got to be the longest blooming hydrangeas ever. These bloom from April to November in my climate and I do absolutely nothing to them. They do tend to droop in the hot summer days of Georgia because I don't water them as often as I should, but other than that they are great.
Hydrangea Bloom
Marigolds planted from seed have engulfed pot and started to bloom.
Marigold flower
I planted these zinnias around my mailbox in alternating rows of red and white. I started them from seed and they are coming along nicely.
Close up of zinnia getting ready to bloom, and it looks like a red one.
4 comments:
Very, very pretty!
Thanks Granny, I hope to try a few different flowers each year around my mailbox to build my flower gardening knowledge. Do you have any flower suggestions for a person just starting out like me?
Kris, I've always been more a veggie gardener than a flower gardener. I pretty much stick to those easily grown perennials, like Shasta daisies, summer phlox, day lilies and chrysanthemums. For annuals, I do love zinnias, lobelia and impatiens. I grew cosmos last year and loved them, but I seeded the large variety, not realizing how tall they got. This year I found seeds for a semi-dwarf variety.
Thanks for the info, I will research lobelia and cosmos and see what I like.
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