Thank you. Yes a friend of mine moved to Colorado a few years ago and tells me that gardening up there is a whole ’nother ball game!
Portulaca is a nice flower. It’s drought tolerant, low growing and blooms all summer.
You do have a nice yard! My gardens are a hodgepodge of flowering perennials and annuals. Though it’s pretty when things are blooming, I do need to start giving it some structure...
My native iris are planted with native phlox for spring blooms, then when they are finished, other natives start...
A couple of years ago I bought a bunch of cheap zinnia seed packets from Walmart. They have self seeded every year since and I end up with a garden full of all colors, heights and flower types. Very pretty! This year because with the crazy weather, the seedlings started coming up in December...
That is a beautiful little garden @oldhenlikesdogs ! My gardens used to have a fairly controlled look, but now they have more of that mad hatter look! So many things seed on their own, and once it gets hot, weeding just doesn’t get priority. As long as there are flowers, butterflies, humming...
No snow here, just rain! Way too wet to do anything out there, although I have lettuce, broccoli, kale and garlic growing. I had plans to be out there this month and next prepping beds and planting potatoes and onions, but if it keeps raining there will be no point because they will all rot! I...