Primula pubescens ‘Exhibition Blue’
Got this lovely Primula pubescens ‘Exhibition Blue’ at Annie’s Annuals and it’s blooming for the first time for me. I love it. By the way, it’s a perennial!
I have a water garden!
I’m too lazy to maintain a pond with pumps and filters and fish and plants and pH imbalances and fish diseases and fish predators and invasive plants and mosquitoes and pond scum… so… a half barrel and little ceramic pot (impulse purchase) from Home Depot is enough water garden for this gardener.
If I ever get bumped on the head really hard, I might start digging a koi pond. If you see me doing this, please gently take my hand and lead me away. Just say, “Angela, please put down the shovel. If you do, I’ll give you a popsicle.”
“Cherry?” I’ll say with the crinkly smile of a child.
In the green ceramic pot (only 7 bucks and it has no hole!) is a zebra rush, a very skinny rush (sorry, I’ll try to find tags) and curly rush (Juncus effusus spiralis). The tall rushes are from Flora Tropicana and the curly rush is from Home Depot. In the half-barrel, I’m establishing two hardy water lilies (pink and a yellowish white from Home Depot) and a friend gave me some parrot’s feather and water hyacinth…. which my dog absconded with when I wasn’t looking. Annie. Bad little Annie. I caught her red-handed, or should I say green-mouthed.
The half-barrel obviously needs some vertical plants. I’m looking at water iris, more rushes and something of an intermediate height with a broader leaf.
The green pot’s water is cloudy because I added pea gravel to raise the pots. I’m hoping it’ll clear by tomorrow. I did poke holes in the pea gravel bag and run hose-water through it. It was still very silty. Since I was working in the rain, my anxiousness to get back inside the house helped me to embrace the cloudiness.
Succulents– One of my many plant addictions
My Annie’s order arrived
1- Verbena bonariensis
4- ‘Apricot’ Cosmos (Woo hoo!!!!!!!!!!)
1- lavender breadseed poppy
As usual, everything arrived from Annie’s Annuals & Perennials ultra-well-packaged. Each potted plant’s rootball was wrapped in newspaper, bound with a rubber band and enclosed in a sandwich baggie, then placed in a new 4″ plastic pot. The plants were held firmly to the bottom of the box by specialized cardboard boxes, on top of which popcorn filled every remaining nook and cranny. Those plants ain’t goin’ anywhere! Holes were punched in the box for improved air circulation.
I was going to drive to Annie’s over the weekend, but only if the weather was decent. It wasn’t.
Does Home Depot know…
… something we “Yes, it’s hot here in the Summer, but it’s a dry heat” Sacramentans don’t about catastrophic climate changes?
Talini’s Dog and Cat
