Saturday, June 4, 2011

State of the Garden

I still need to plant flowers in a couple of areas and put down mulch.  I need to hurry with the planting, because it is getting blazing hot around here.

My garden areas have mixed results.

The bottom-most bed is going crazy...the petunias are overtaking, crowding out the marigolds, but the begonias aren't doing half bad:



It is hard to see, but in the middle of the marigolds is the yellow-headed stepchild.  When I planted it, it didn't have any blooms and I put it dead center.  It looks as if I did it on purpose, with the orange ones encircling it, but I was not intending to have yellow in my garden this year:



The flowers in this bed, higher up on the wall, are the same size as when I planted them (except for that one petunia):



Half of this bed is doing very well...the other half - not so much:



Same with this one:



I don't know what to do.  My level of expertise has been exhausted.  Besides watering and weeding...I got nothin.'

MK out.

3 comments:

  1. I'd give the petunias a fun hair cut. Chop them down. They'll come back thicker and less leggy. chop chop chop

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  2. Thanks...I will try that.

    The gardener who comes to trim my shrubs and groundcover told me that I should pull them up and plant something else.

    Srsly?

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  3. You have flowers! I like them.

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