Touring the Grounds

August 4, 2014 at 6:20 AM (Around Our House, From the Heart, Our Boy, Pretty Things)

Hi Guys, August 4th here, moving right along! It is a delicious 67 degrees outside, always makes for a nice walk! I thought I would enjoy the cool of the morning and take you for a walk outside.

We start out down by the pool. It’s hard to take pictures down there without showing HUGE expanses of pool cover. Not attractive pictures. Therefore, you get areas of the pool area.

This area is coming along nicely considering I had very low expectations for it. I was pretty sure the zinnias would put on a show, but the other two pots seemed like lame ducks. Not a lot of growth or action until recently. But look at them now!!!! I seriously thought the lantana might quit on me.

Once again, a slow moving lantana joophering up the joint. I regretted not getting more zinnia this year. I did get 2 flats. They are so loverly and reliable. Alas, when I returned to the favorite flower store, they had no more. Sad face.

This bad boy is going to town! See the hydrangea behind him?? Thought it might not have survived The Polar Vortex! Glad to be wrong!

The hyacinth bean I bought at the Trailwood Garden Walk finally shot up to the top of the trellis!!!! The other side is not doing as well. Something is lunching on it. Why one side and not the other? I mean I’m glad, but just yearning for understanding.

The other gate is growing nicely after experiencing much PV death. Cut down to the nubbins, but Schmenky was right, it rebounded.

As did the Rose of Sharon!

Now we are up on the back porch. These guys are in various stages of growth. I could be happy with them all but again, I wonder why the third one down has not grown an inch since it was planted. Scratching freshly de-greyed head.

These guys, like Sheldon, really like their spot.

i saw a plant like this when The Peanuts Champ took me to the Ann Arbor Garden Walk earlier this year. It’s called a candy corn plant.

Get it??? It also meandered it’s way up to the tip top.

I am very pleased with the coleus this year. I so enjoy all of their colors and lushness.

I showed you a close up of the other side a few days ago. To be fair, this is the remaining side. It seemed only right.

Oh, here is the other side again, it’s my favorite! Shhh, don’t tell them I said that!

Because Windows Live Writer lives to cause me angst and grievance, I have one more picture of the pool area that was overrode. It’s a long story, no one needs to hear it.

On to the front porch. I am very happy with the front porch chair pot! And the leaning stalk of coleus! But the top pot of alyssum? Has not bloomed again since planting. It is a shame to it’s breed.

 

I decided to give Creeping Jenny a whirl in the front porch pots. I think I would like them better if I rearranged what was in the pots differently. The coleus, who I am loathe to say anything bad about, have completely shoved out everything else in there. This was not quite the look I was going for. I thought there would be some other loverlies cascading out of the pot instead of a shock of scared coleus, standing straight up in fear, and an uneven dribble of Jenny creeping around, like a bib of drool. Plus, the Jenny on the left is being munched and is downright mangy. I have some ideas to try next year, to rectify the situation.

And there you have it. The grounds of The NutHatch.

Still praying for The Boy to grow, grow, GROW those platelets. More tomorrow. Thank you for your prayers, they are so very much appreciated!