As usual, I was too brain fried at the end of the busy work week to get my post up for Market Friday — the ultra fun initiative by the wonderful community builder, @dswigle! So maybe I should call it Market Friday/Saturday! (Yes I’ll be late for my own funeral. Ha ha.) Anyway, here we are.
Don’t you love a garden center?? OMG, the colors! It makes me want to buy more flowers than my property can support. So each year I go in with a plan and then stick to it.
I have a garden map, with everything plotted out so I hopefully don’t over-plant, and I have a working plan for my shopping trip to the garden center. I also support several fundraising plant sales, so I have to take that into account too!
Sometimes even if I’m not shopping for plants, I go out there just to absorb the color, and immerse myself in it. It makes me feel whole and happy after dealing with the very long, very cold winters we have here in Minnesota.
I have this idea that if I take it all in now, and truly appreciate its beauty, this color will stay with me through the next phase of cold and white that will inevitably return in several months’ time. I know I’m crazy! When winter comes I will lack the imagination that this splendor is possible!
Okay, want to see a few pictures of my garden in its current state? It is still in early mode, as we don’t plant here until May 15, which is when we pass the danger of frost, at last. So this is how it’s doing three weeks into the season.
Everything grows very fast here, like it knows it only has a bit of time. In three weeks my basil and cilantro have matured and gone to seed, my mint is exploding out of the pot, and I can already harvest lettuce!
I plant a combination of herbs, vegetables, annual flowers and perennials, with many attractors for bees and butterflies!
In the coming weeks, Lillie’s and many other plants will blossom and by the end of summer the garden will be a color extravaganza from a variety of sunflowers. Stay tuned!
Thank you, @dswigle, for hosting this wonderful weekly event. And thanks to those who stop by to check out my post!
Photo credits: All of the photos in this post were taken by me with my iphone and belong to me, unless otherwise noted.
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