Gertrude's Flower Garden - Weekly Diary

6/18/99 - For instant gratification, you go to your flower mart and buy flowers in bloom, which you plant in freshly turned earth from which you have dug up the spring bulbs. Nothing, however, gives greater pleasure than seeing the first blooms on those flowers you raised from seed. This past week my Big Red geraniums showed their first bright red florets and the browallia in a pot hanging over the garage entrance opened one of its lovely deep blue flowers.

I have been very busy this week clearing grass and moss from a stone pathway around the back of our rock garden. Gertrude built this path over a number of years, but wasn't able to care for the rock garden in recent years--besides clearing the path, I have been clearing and replanting the rock garden itself. I bought(!) some dusty miller and a few white begonias and impatiens to set out.

Hundreds of "volunteers" still wait to be moved. I wish that I could send each of you via the Internet several dozen burgundy coleus. They have come up by the thousands and I am having to pull many up as weeds. I also am moving around balsam, cleome, and celosia, the wise little flower that comes up last of all when any danger of frost is over.

The picture below of part of the flower bed to the right of our doorway is not from this year. I am busily snapping pictures of this year's beds, and hope to have some with future diary entries.

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