Summer Flowers '09

There is a spot out front where we've been thinking we need a summer flower bed. It is along the little stone wall, along the path that leads to the pool. This spring I put in some hollyhock rhizomes, and scattered some shasta daisy seed.

Only one of the hollyhocks has come up, but it won't flower this year, and daisies don't bloom in the first year after planting either, so we really don't know what we'll get from the earlier effort. We decided to buy some perennials in containers and plant them there to get things started.

Here's a photo of Mary after the garden was planted - cone flowers, black eyed susans, and one other variety. These will flower throughout the summer and come back next year, better established and with more flowers.