Well, it’s long past time to clean up the yard and get more plants to murder.
Yesterday, I went to a home improvement store to get some plants for the front yard. I had spent the previous morning cleaning up the dead debris from the previous year, and needed some boosts of color. As usual, I gravitate towards petunias. I love petunias. They tend to do well in hot weather, and their velvety colors are rich and radiant. Who wouldn’t want such beautiful blooms??
Look at them!!! Aren’t they lush and gorgeous?
I have to admit, those plants tend to survive here quite well, but it does get rather boring after a while. The problem we have is choosing plants for the front stoop. That area acts like a magnifying glass in the afternoon. After consulting Hubby (and by that, I mean he pretty much said I couldn’t kill these), we settled on cacti.
There they are and there they’ll stay. Heat and Summer challenge: accepted. And if they do die, it will NOT be my fault this time.
I’ll take the blame for the other plants that do die off, though. This is me we are talking about 😉
April 26th, 2014 at 1:01 PM
I don’t have a brown thumb, I don’t even have a black one. I have a Grim Reaper thumb. Plants fear me for BEHOLD I’m their death made incarnate!
April 27th, 2014 at 9:50 AM
We may be related 😀
April 26th, 2014 at 3:16 PM
I don’t get to murder plants until after Mother’s Day. That’s usually the latest we ever get a hard freeze. Unlike y’all, who are often firmly in the 100’s by then. 🙂
April 27th, 2014 at 9:52 AM
This year we are a bit late for our planting cycle. Which may explain why the plants thought they were in the clear of me 😀
April 26th, 2014 at 7:19 PM
Just laid out the garden and did flowers for the first time. By flowers I mean something besides roses, which are thorny weeds that happen to have nice flowers on them. I don’t know what these are, but they look nice.
Anyway, I usually do tomatoes, okra, cucumbers, squash, beans, peas and this year, corn. I get unreasonably happy when the seed catalogs show up.
April 27th, 2014 at 9:53 AM
I had roses in the front yard. Managed to kill those, too. Sigh…
April 27th, 2014 at 7:36 AM
I have managed to kill plastic plants. I don’t even bother with real ones anymore.
April 27th, 2014 at 9:53 AM
My plastic ones look like they are dead. No longer green, anyway.