Mistakes!

Okay, so here it is the dog days of August. No more purchasing for the garden this year. (A personal rule) I am left reviewing the choices I made and watering, watering, watering. All that watering some how makes me focus on the things that are driving me crazy. I know from experience that in September when the garden work load decreases and the tapped out, wasted plants start a new flush of flowering I will experience renewed pleasure from my flowers. Right now all  I focus on is their flaws...signs of mildew, yellowing leaves, poor color combinations and on and on....Kind of like 6:30 pm when you are tired, on your feet cooking dinner and all your children are whining!

Mistake #1
Bad color combination. Ick! I keep thinking how amazing this would be if the million bells were any color but pale pink...Yellow, purple, fuchsia - anything but that washed out pink with the orange portulacas.

 

 

 

Mistake number #2

 

Putting flowers that are only open part of the day into a window box. What a boring window box this is by 4pm! The portulacas and the ganzania are all snapped shut. This, by the way, is the window box that was entirely created from dividing and propagating flowers from other locations (except for the ganzanias). So except for some new soil, this box cost only $2 to fill this year. So even if it is tired by 4pm, I am still pretty pleased with it. Next year I will do the same thing, but put them in containers lower down that don't grab your attention quite so much. That is clematis weaving its way behind the flowers...Would it be too much to hope for some more buds in Sept???

 

 

Mistake #3

An all white window box...this seemed lovely in theory, but in actuality it is deadly boring and doesn't work aesthetically with any of my other choices. Never again!!!!

 

 

 

 

Mistake #4

 

Chosing a white rose based on the notion that white window boxes would be lovely! Will have to figure out how to work this rose into my conception for next year.

 

 

 

 

 

I guess this is one of the things that makes gardening so much fun...It's never finished. There is always room to make it better. For now I will just keep watering....