June 13, 2005
what we’ve done today
This morning at breakfast, the boys started talking about wanting to plant flowers in our yard. Since the pool is closed on Monday, we were pretty desperate for something to do, and since it rained last night and our yard is a swamp, planting seemed like a good idea. I also have some ongoing guilt feelings about my yard; the grass is nice, and we keep things trimmed and neat, but we have a fantastic flower bed, just off the edge of the horrible porch (with a lovely built-in brick planter box) and another bed under the kitchen window, both of which are currently filled with weeds and Bermuda grass. The year we bought the house, Wade’s mother planted both these beds and they were beautiful, but I’ve not kept it up, which is sad. Apparently we have the best soil in Oklahoma City, and it breaks my mother-in-law’s heart that we’re not growing anything.
Until today! We went to Lowe’s (Henry’s choice) and bought a dozen periwinkle plants and two fairly large lantana plants. I had good luck with the lantana last summer, even though I planted it late (yes, I know, all these things should have gone in the garden weeks ago, but guess what? THEY DIDN’T). The vinca I’m a little more nervous about, especially as we seemed to have upset a whole anthill when we were prepping the planter box for the plants–oh well.
I also dug up the bed under the kitchen window; I have a random stand of monkey grass in the far corner of the yard that I think I will transplant, just for fun. But then it got hot, and so we came inside. The end.
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June 14th, 2005 at 7:01 am, ieatcrayonz Says:
Ooh, ooh, ooh! Radiation lantana is quickly becoming my favorite. I too, planted some on my super hot back porch last summer and they did great in the drought condition that is my wilted green thumb. The only problem I had were some super huge light green worms that showed up one day to eat all of the leaves off. The leaves soon grew back, thank goodness.
They also photograph really well. Glad to see that you Sooners are coming over to the dark side with a little orange on the landscape! Just kidding…again!