My patio garden has sufferred through my first summer of being diagnosed with sle etc, but I hope to do better by it this year. That's my pledge to it and in the presence of people who may ask me about it as the summer goes along.
I don't have much room but I normally have black-eyed susans, purple cone flowers, some daisies, some hostas, some lilies of the valley and some butterfly plants that should come up on their own. Every year all I try to do is fill some pots with annuals, and have some hanging baskets of flowers on shepards hooks that I have around, and keep my bird bath full.
I need to clean up excess stuff that has accumulated and get rid of the dead plants and weeds, that I find is the hardest thing to do because I don't have the energy often and it is really sunny out there in the morning when I have the most energy of the day. But I am going to make a concerted effort to get it looking pretty again. Especially hanging baskets of flowers, which I really think add to the patio and also sometimes give hummingbirds something to eat ass they pass by.
Hopefully Little by Little I will be able to make headway during these cool somewhat cloudy days with a hat and some sunscreen and be ready when the plants come into the nurseries and stores I will be ready to make my patio a pretty place again. The statue of Buddha doesn't look all that happy surrounded by weeds.:sad:
Wish me luck and energy!
ixiedust: :foryou:
I don't have much room but I normally have black-eyed susans, purple cone flowers, some daisies, some hostas, some lilies of the valley and some butterfly plants that should come up on their own. Every year all I try to do is fill some pots with annuals, and have some hanging baskets of flowers on shepards hooks that I have around, and keep my bird bath full.
I need to clean up excess stuff that has accumulated and get rid of the dead plants and weeds, that I find is the hardest thing to do because I don't have the energy often and it is really sunny out there in the morning when I have the most energy of the day. But I am going to make a concerted effort to get it looking pretty again. Especially hanging baskets of flowers, which I really think add to the patio and also sometimes give hummingbirds something to eat ass they pass by.
Hopefully Little by Little I will be able to make headway during these cool somewhat cloudy days with a hat and some sunscreen and be ready when the plants come into the nurseries and stores I will be ready to make my patio a pretty place again. The statue of Buddha doesn't look all that happy surrounded by weeds.:sad:
Wish me luck and energy!
ixiedust: :foryou: