Spring Flowers Renew Hope for Life

At a meeting the other week, one of the fun activities was to paint flower pots. Now I'm not exactly a crafty critter but love to do creative work.

So I kept dipping paintbrushes into different colors and created a flower garden of sorts right on the outside of the pot!

The hosts of the meeting had packages of seeds and a big bag of potting soil, too, so guests could plant whatever they wanted in their newly painted pots. Since I love Cosmos, that's the packet that I chose.

First, I put potting soil into the pot. Then sprinkling the seeds into the pot, I gently covered them with more soil, tapped it down with my index finger, and brought the whole shabang home. I placed the pot on the kitchen window sill after giving the newly planted baby seeds a drink.

The reason I love Cosmos is because they come in such a dazzling array of color. They are the crayons of the plant world.

 Anyway, one morning, about a week after I attended that meeting with the seed planting activity,           I looked at the pot on the windowsill. Yikes! Little seedlings were sticking their skinny heads right up     over the soil. It looked like they were stretching their spaghetti width necks out the window toward the sun!                                                                                                                                           

Did you hear that shrieking where you live? That was me, rejoicing that the planted Cosmos actually
lived! And were growing! Holy jumping jarazzafras, I could hardly believe my eyes!


I told my husband he had to transplant these tender babies somewhere outside. When he does, I'm going to wait for the colorful full grown beauties to say, "Here I am world! Come pick me." Then, I'll run outside with the scissors and a vase. Ya hoo! Planting seeds is a blast!
                       

By the way, I decided this year I wanted flowers in just two colors, red and white. Last year there were all kinds of colored flowers in our front yard. I remember saying how much I'd like to see more coordination.

My husband, (God bless that man),  has already planted the red geraniums, New Guinea impatiens, and one other red flower, verbana. Yesterday, he was out digging again and did two rows of red and white regular impatiens, up and down both sides of the brick walkway leading to our front steps. He also planted some in the circle around the old tree stump. I still mourn the fact we had to have the tree cut down after it died.  Branches kept falling off and filling the front yard with debris.  So, big tree, rest in peace. Your stump is now surrounded by red and white impatiens.

The yard is going to look nice this year and that fills my heart with gratitude.

DO YOU PLANT FLOWERS IN YOUR YARD? WHAT KIND?