April Bloom Day
We live on a tiny, long. skinny mobile home lot in extreme S. TX. The soil is alkaline concrete clay, unless it rains. Then the soil turns into soggy, sticky, stick-to-your-shoes gunk. I haven’t got the energy to mess with it, so most of my garden is containers. I have a small L-shaped raised bed for veggies, though I grow a bunch of them in containers, too. Not much of a garden, really, but it makes me happy to think I’m a gardener. I’m working on making it prettier as arthritis, time, money, and weather allow.
It’s really windy and cloudy; we’ve had rain showers all week so far. The plants didn’t want to stand still and smile, so the pics might be a bit fuzzy. Here’s what’s in bloom in my yard this month:
These first three containers are in my side-of-the-stairs container garden.
This container has blue sage, a Blackie sweet potato vine, and yellow lantana.
Pink Laura Bush petunias ( a wonderfully fragrant and forgiving plant), Red Nikki mix nicotiana, more Blue Daze, and some gazania.
Like I said, nothing special, but it’s mine…
Looks pretty special to me! I have no flowers in bloom, I’m terrible at container gardening, and the sparrows dined on my lettuce this morning.
Ah, man. I battle mockingbirds and you deal with sparrows. I’m thinking you should maybe get bird net and put up some sort of a frame over your babies until they’re big enough to handle a bit of pecking. It’s cheap, and it works. Since it’s black, you can’t really see it from a distance, so it doesn’t look bad.
April and May are a nice time to be in Texas! We’re just getting a little bit of green showing here now and are getting our first taste of rain for the season. I loved the fields of wildflowers we’d see on the drive from our house in San Angelo to my sister’s near Fort Hood when we lived there. I have pictures of my dog in the bluebonnets, probably the best pictures I ever took of her.
Haven’t had the time to drive up north to see them; I heart they are spectacular this year. I tried to plant some bluebonnets; none grew. They are not easy to start.
Good morning ~ I think what you have growing there is lovely. You do quite well with containers that’s for sure. We can be gardeners whether we have one little pot filled with something that delights us, or have more space to grow things. You’ve got veggie and flowers in the space that is yours, and that’s great.
Thank you for visiting my blog. I know what you mean about reading something that happens to be just meant for you right when you need it.
I have two other blogs as well as the one you visited. FlowerLady’s Musings is my main blog and then I have Plum Cottage Creations showing my needlework.
I wish you a lovely weekend.
FlowerLady
I’ll be stopping by to see your other blogs when I can. Found the one I visited via Hoe & Shovel, I think. And thank you for stopping by…
I bet the container of lantana, sage and sweet potato vine is gorgeous when the flowers are in full bloom. I use containers along our sidewalk because years ago I planted ivy which takes over everything. So a couple of years ago. I dug and pulled up as much as I could and covered the area with landscape cloth. I use containers there now so I don’t have to cut holes in the landscpae cloth.
In another month or so, it’ll be spectacular, if I do say so myself. Maybe even sooner, with the rain we’ve had all week. As much as I’d love to have a lovely in-ground garden, it doesn’t make sense to go to all that effort in a rented yard. You can do so much with containers, and move them wherever you want, so it works fine for me right now. I try just about anything, and don’t believe “them” when they say certain things can’t grow in a container. I try anyway; sometimes “they” are right, sometimes I am.
Ivy is a pain to get rid of. Containers make sense in a situation like that, too.