I suppose technically, it should be called Planting WEEKEND because it takes more than a day to get it all done. We've got a good system down now. We head to the nursery Friday afternoon, as soon as Bart gets home from work. The nursery is much less crowded on a Friday afternoon, than on Saturday morning. PLUS, if we get all of our plant shopping out of the way on Friday night, that leaves all day Saturday to dive right into the planting instead of having to shop first and then plant. AND, we don't have to rush thru the shopping part, which I kind of love.
If you've been hanging around here for very long, then you probably know that this is an annual event at our house. Planting day (weekend) is kind of a big deal around here. I love, love, love planting day (weekend) and always have to take Laverne, the Nikon, along on our trek to the nursery because who can resist rows and rows of gorgeous flowers all in one place?!
Above is a peek at some of what we brought home.
Here's what we planted in the back, in all the pots on our deck. I loooove sitting out on our deck, rocking in my chair, surrounded by gorgeous colors!
In addition to all the flowers we planted, we also planted 8 heirloom tomato plants....some are our favorites from last year that we chose to double up on, and the last three on the list are brand new to us this year. Here's our list of tomato varieties...
2 Black Krims
Carbon
2 Cherokee Purples
Pineapple
Brandywine
Yellow Brandywine
And now we begin the hard part.....the 2-3 month wait for those babies to grow til we can eat them!
While we were planting in the front flower bed, we made a little discovery in the tree that's also in the bed. See that bird hiney sticking out of that nest?! It's a robin...or rather, it's a robin's hiney.
Side note: Don't you think it's interesting that God chose to take a pretty ordinary looking (some might even say, boring) bird and gave it one of the prettiest colors of eggs?? I love that. Robins' eggs are so pretty. And don't you remember as a kid, what a treasure it was to find a robins' egg shell on the ground?! Score!
And now let's talk about this one.....clearly worn out from all of the {insert air quotes} assistance {end air quotes} he gave us throughout the day. LOL. He just decided to stretch out in the front yard for a bit....you know, to watch the neighborhood.....make sure he's available, should any of the neighbors want to come and give him some lovin'. :)
I think I've told you before that he LOVES to have a 'job'. So sometimes he gets to "be my helper" and carry empty cereal boxes or toilet paper rolls out to the recycling bin for me. Or he gets to carry a REALLY IMPORTANT piece of {junk} mail back to the house, all the way from the mail box, and deliver it to daddy or mama. Or as was the case on planting day, I gave him the spade and asked him to carry it from the back yard to the front yard to give it to his daddy. He was more than happy to help. ;)
Side note: His head is all wet in the photo above, because he's recently discovered how fun it is to get drinks out of the hose while his daddy is watering! Hahaha. He 'bites' at the water as it's coming out of the hose and then shakes his head like crazy, when he gets all wet. It's actually very entertaining to watch. LOL. Unfortunately, most of his head ends up soaked in the process.....but at least he had fun!
This concludes the annual retelling of our annual planting day (weekend).
Have a goodie!
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