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My first pets!! YIPEE!!

14 years ago

Well, I never! I have petunia flowers from winter sown seeds and they are just prescious and there's still two solid months of flowering left for them so I'm in for a real treat. I went away for the weekend and they decided to start flowering when I was gone. Here they are...

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While I'm at it, let me show you a planter with winter sown sunflower Peach Passion, Tagetes, Alyssum and more Petunias. The Alyssums are starting to flow over and the Petunias should show up soon. :O)

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Here's the same pot with other pots. In the other pots are winter sown Amaranths with store bought Verbenas and Zinnias. Oh, and my houseplants which I bring out for the summer.

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OK, that's it. Thanks PV for the inspiration. I can do containers after all! :O) Oh, and Pets too!

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Comments (6)

kqcrna
14 years ago
Pretty, Tiffy. And your little girl watering her flowers is really cute.

Karen
shasta_2008
14 years ago
Geat job and your plants look so healthy!
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agirlsgirl
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14 years ago
I gotta tell you, tiff, your containers look way better than mine! Good job! Those marigolds are awesome ...

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littleonefb
14 years ago
Tiffy, love the containers and that little girl with her watering can is just adorable.

Now save those seeds from those petunias. Never know what you will get if the seeds aren't stable, but you will get some really pretty ones next year too.

Fran
tiffy_z5_6_can
Original Author
14 years ago
Thanks everyone!

I'll definitely be saving seeds Fran. I think these are suppose to cascade with time so I might be in for a real treat. They were so small when I put them in those pots in late June, but they've grown quite well.

PV,
Sometimes the weather here doesn't cooperate in the summer and the bigger Marigolds get all moldy and mushy. These also feed the soil some nitrogen while they grow so I have them here and there in the gardens. BTW, I KNOW you've got good looking containers 'up' there!

The little girl... I saw her at a garden center close to the trash bin. She was broken from her original base and they were going to throw her out, but I rescued her, glued her to a terra cotta tile, glued polished river rocks on the base. The little china flower vase in front of her is also glued there. It was something my mother was going to throw away because the flowers were chipped. Total cost was the price of the glue, but she is priceless. :O)

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