So since everyone else has been out in great numbers buying plants for themselves, I figure it's my turn!

I was going to make a "plant by number" pot for next to the front door, but the largest pot I have is light blue & 12" diameter. It doesn't go with the red brick house front & may not hold that many plants. So I'm going to buy at least an 18" "terra cotta" pot that's premade.

I was going to get a premade windowsill box for above the planter, but the brick ledge is only 5" deep & I have to stay below 10" to not interfere with the doorbell. And I don't want plants, water, bugs & dirt dropping down on us from above the bench, so I won't put any on that ledge. So I guess a windowsill box is out of the question.

Instead I'm buying a premade mixed hanging planter.

I'll also be getting the annuals for between the perennials in the back garden.

The front perennial/annual garden's in the process of being torn up & turned into a lava rock/perennial garden with stepping blocks to the park bench. I'm saving what plants survived last summer & the winter for hopefully planting alongside the bench & straight down to the sidewalk. I have to buy lava rock & stepping blocks for that tomorrow too.

I told my coworkers I'm going to teasingly give them the rude attitude & such like some of the customers we've been dealing with! LOL

And hopefully none of the customers recognize me & try to get me to help them with their purchasing decisions or I'll have to clock in & get paid for such, but then I'd get put to work filling wholesale orders instead, like a regular day!

So, how's everyone else's gardens & pots growing or ideas for such going?

So all I need to buy are annuals & 2 replacement perennials for the back garden & the two annual containers for the front.

Yippee!

So, anyhow, what's everyone else doing for gardening?

I did buy the bedding annuals today & a hanging mixed annuals pot.

I also bought the standing mixed annuals pot but it looks so small next to the front door (10" pot in a 24" wide space) that it may have to go back for a bigger one or I may have to make my own. I don't know what size pot to look for either way though & posted about this dilemma on the "Container Gardening" forum.

I didn't buy a windowsill box because I have to figure out if the 5" deep ledge will support one, & because there's a doorbell 10" above the ledge 8" from the edge that I have to take into consideration. This was also questioned on that same forum.

I'll wait until the front bricked-in bench/garden area is finished to see what perennials are needed there. And if none are needed & any are left over I'll try to incorporate something from there into the back garden where two medium-height are needed.

I love this time of year, yet I hate it. Or maybe I just dislike the prep & purchase. *sigh*

See what I mean about the weeds

But the absolute best thing in my yard this past week was a flowering crab. It was snowing pink blossoms-thank you God for giving us so many things to be thankful for!