When spring finally arrives it’s time to get out in the garden and get everything back into some kind of order. I started by emptying the planter and giving it a bit of a scrub to clean it up a bit.
Then came the fun bit... filling it with garden mix and a few flowering plants. I chose Pansies, Lobelias and Sweet Williams. I bought them before they’d started flowering as they were cheaper to buy that way, which meant I didn’t know what colours I was going to get until they started flowering.
I probably wouldn’t have chosen pinks and purples if I had the choice but I reckon I probably couldn’t have chosen the colours any better.
It’s amazing how a bit of colour can brighten up your day.
The way it turned out the colours tied in nicely with the orchids which I moved from their storage area, to brighten up the front of the house.
The old planter box has a new life. Beautiful orchids too. I love orchids as the flowers are so stunning. I've finished digging my veggie garden over & mixing through a load of compost ready for planting soon. The flower gardens at the front of the house look like your "Before" planter photo. They're next for the de-weeding treatment
ReplyDeleteAnyone walking past the front of my place must think I have absolutely no interest in gardening.
ReplyDeleteI saw a little sign in someones garden once while out in the ministry. It said: "My garden always looks it's best the day after my visitors have left."
That's often true in my case.