So this morning, instead of working I went to some yard sales and to the garden center with Special K. After 18 years of marriage, its amazing how much fun we have doing simple things together! Found a few things for his classroom (please, please, let him have a classroom soon!!) at the yard sales. Then we hit one of our favorite nurseries in town.(pictured here is a Blackfoot Daisy, one of purchases from earlier this summer. It's so SWEET!! It's little but doing well!!)
Here's what we bought today!
Salvia Greggii (color: "navajo rose")
A Bottlebrush Plan (Callistemon)
A purple Butterly Bush (latin name:
Buddleia)
And our MOST EXCITING new purchase...
An Ocotillo plant!!!!
I'll let you know how they do. I'm very excited. Playing in the dirt is WAY more fun than editing my book manuscript!!
2 comments:
I'm so happy you get to grow an Ocotillo. Did you buy it in a bundle like this? I am obsessed with Ocotillo. I can't grow it here but I enjoy it across the mountain in the desert cities. An amazing plant!
And butterfly bush is one of my favorites. If only there was a way for me to get you some of my two dozen ready to plant that I grew from cuttings last year as here I am with too many and needing to give some away...
Yay... so glad to see you posting again. Now I need to get off my fanny and post some too. Sigh... Facebook usually is my downfall.
Mike laughs because I've turned into a gardener since we moved to Pgh. Not sure why now, but most weekends you'll find me trolling the garden center. A most satisfying hobby. I've got a huge flowering shrub border I'm working on. Nothing planted there is nearly as exotic as what you have. But, I did put in Buddleia Davidii last year, just a twig, and this year it's already 4 feet tall. Have fun!
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