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At long last my front flower beds are beginning to look better. I'm sure that it is due, partly, to the daily rain showers we have been having. When I planned my front beds, I envisioned masses of large blooms, and to a small degree I have achieved that. However, it is only with the last group of plants that I ordered, a type of rudbeckia. These are not your everyday black-eyed Susans. Instead they are lovely shades of dark red, yellow, and orange.
The sun-patiens are doing okay, but I had hoped that they would mound more and spread farther. They look odd here with tall stalks poking up behind them.
Here on the left are the lovely rudbeckias, but as you can see, some have fallen over. There also are too many bare spots. The million bells have been the biggest disappointment.
I guess that all is not lost because SOMETHING has done well, even if it seemed like it took forever for this to have happened.
At long last my front flower beds are beginning to look better. I'm sure that it is due, partly, to the daily rain showers we have been having. When I planned my front beds, I envisioned masses of large blooms, and to a small degree I have achieved that. However, it is only with the last group of plants that I ordered, a type of rudbeckia. These are not your everyday black-eyed Susans. Instead they are lovely shades of dark red, yellow, and orange.
The sun-patiens are doing okay, but I had hoped that they would mound more and spread farther. They look odd here with tall stalks poking up behind them.
Here on the left are the lovely rudbeckias, but as you can see, some have fallen over. There also are too many bare spots. The million bells have been the biggest disappointment.
I guess that all is not lost because SOMETHING has done well, even if it seemed like it took forever for this to have happened.
2 comments:
My million bells and begonias have taken forever to really perk up and look healthy and spread and produce lovely blooms. It has been trying to find a balance of how much to amend my soil, how much to water and fertilize and how much to just leave them alone.
It never ceases to amaze me how some plants can be completely neglected or even self seed themselves in a less than optimal place and then I can baby plants that are supposed to be easy to grow and they just struggle along.
My impatiens look horrible. Too much sun, even though it is only half day full sun. I think maybe it has just been too hot. My hostas are even looking a bit crispy on the leaves and 90+ days that are never ending are just not good for anything, even if you can water. My poor tomatoes have terrible leaf curl from where they are just trying to protect themselves.
I'm going to have to get some rudbeckias for the front beds. Yours look amazing.
The beds are filling in nicely, Mom, even if they're not 100% yet.
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