My favorite vining trailing plant is my mandevilla, it just grows like crazy. It made it through our winter just fine and is looking beautiful, can't wait for the pretty dark pink flowers.

I am very anxious to get planting. They are saying we should be able to start planting very soon. I would like to try to set up some container garden for vegetables this year. I found some good ideas for a better way to do it on pinterest. I hope it happens. I have a lot of my flower plants in the atrium that made it through winter very well so that should help. I want to try more succulents this year they are so pretty and easy to grow. I would love for my front bed to be very colorful this summer. Lots of sweet potato vines for that striking lime color. Similar to how it was in this picture from a couple of summers ago.

Mandevilla it's so much bigger now and has a big wooden trellis in it to climb.

Your outdoor bed is incredibly colorful!! And the presiding kitty is very regal and classy :)

"What will you grow this year?" ...

... lazier?

There need to be a few prerogatives to lighten up the decrepitude that's part of the seniorhood landscape, don't ya figger?

When I consider the work that went into getting my mile or so of garden row going last year ... well, a lot less than that, as I didn't get half of the first planting into ground ... and later plantings were spotty.

When I consider what little result I had (I called it a "fiasco") ... my resolve to get going again this spring ...

... sort of dissipates.

ole joyfuelled ... with a bit o' help from garden produce ... when some appears

Thanks that is how it looked a couple of years ago and I want to get back to a similar look this summer.
That was one of the roaming cats that would come eat at our back door. He has since disappeared or moved on elsewhere. One day he went through my neighbors doggie door into her house lol.

Ravencajun. I love the colors in that garden.

I think I may plant some herbs. I have tomato plants sprouting from the ones left laying on the ground from last year. I'll grow some flowers. Apparently, my next door neighbor and I are having a contest for best landscaping. Not sure how that works since he keeps copying my flowers and color variations Lol! Our gardens look good.

I'd like to have some fruit trees and other veggies. This city living and fire ants kind of limits that.

I can't garden any longer. I will hire someone to clean the beds and trim the bushes. I have large egg rock in most of the back yard beds and under my deck. I will eventually have the front beds done.

I put in tomatoes, green beans and maybe some cucs or peppers every year, some years later than others. With the cost of our water I often wonder if it's worth it, but they sure do taste good!

OJ, how about putting in just a little bit this year, just enough to keep you busy but not too much that it will overwhelm you?

I devote a great deal of garden space to assorted mixed greens such as arugula, spinach, chard, kale, and a mesclun mix. I grow beets and turnips just for the baby greens. Green beans, several summer squash varieties, rat tail radish, cukes, and more. Those will all be sown directly into the ground. Actually, have been harvesting spinach already.

I've got several kinds of tomatoes growing under lights, a little fancy pepper that I'll try in a container.

I'm also growing Profusion and Angustifolia zinnia in several flats of cell packs, pentas, I'll buy a few Angelonia plants and some Calibrachoa, which is what I would suggest for you, as long as you get enough hours of sun.

I avoid nasturtiums....nasty spider magnets, in my experience.

The sun is shining and I'm getting the itch to plant something! I do have a PVC light system that is great, but I earlier planned to not go that route this year. Wellll.......now I may have to rethink that! My vegetable gardening is restricted to the self-watering home made containers, which I love. Last year I also did the straw bale gardening. I really like both methods, as the weeds are non-existent and watering is simple. So perhaps I'll get the light system put up and get some planting done. Oh, I do have a number of flower beds, and lotsa hosta!

I will plant 4 tomato plants this month. My yard has too much shade for the most part, but I found one patch against the back fence that seemed to work last year.

At this point, I'll be happy with seeing some grass! We still have a foot of snow covering the lawn so it's hard to get too excited about gardening just yet. We are two months away from even thinking about planting anything. My neighbor plants his mother's garden around Mother's Day and that's been too early the last couple years! We have had late freezes. As cold as it has been this winter, I'm thinking late May! UGH! One thing I will plant is a new tree to replace one that didn't make it.

A tree that I planted several years ago is growing faster than anticipated. Thus, I gotta move the veggie garden to another spot. When the soil is ready, I'll dig up one of the perennial beds and move that to the old veggie spot. I'll have to do a bit of prep before I can plant root crops in the new bed. I still have seeds from last year. I'll grow whatever I have! No new seed packets this year!

It warmed a bit today, along with plentiful sun shine and lots of the snow from last weekend went away. Of course the big piles next to the drive will be there for a while.

I'll be lucky if I can grow some flowers. Last year, the deer bit off most of my hydrangea blossoms in spite of using a repellant spray. The spray odor was supposed to last at least a week, but a rain or heavy dew can wash out its effectiveness. I have to reapply the repellent immediately after the plant has been wet down. I have the same problem with roses. In fact, our resident deer will denude new rose plantings so severely that it kills the plant. The first night, a few leaves are gone, then the next night more are gone and then a short time later the newly replacement leaves are gone as well as the others and the poor bare stem is doomed.

It's much too early for me! Even though my town had its' St. Patrick's Parade and we turned the clocks ahead today, we still have a couple of feet of unmelted snow covering everything! Besides, I'm still nursing my strained knee so I can't bear the thought of kneeling and crouching just yet! Last years garden was a bust- I got zero tomatoes on six plants.

Wildflowers, from a mix from Wildseed farms

Perennials

Roses

Tomatoes

Peppers

Onions

Eggplant

Pole beans

Blackberries

Lemons, oranges and limes from miniature trees

Hardy hibiscus

My vegetable garden is very small but yields enough veggies for me and some to freeze. Right now, the catalogs are appearing in my mailbox with their irresistible descriptions, but I'm trying to resist and keep the gardens to a size where keeping them up stays fun and manageable. At my last home, the yard work and gardens became a chore, I don't want that.

Raven, stunning flower bed. The mix of colors is terrific. Are those exterior window coverings? I cannot quite make out what the white, horizontal feature is.

Not planting much this year, sadly. We are in drought conditions and must limit watering, so I'll just put in a couple of zucchinis because I like to share them with my neighbors. Their kids love the green striped ones I grow (romanesco).

Yes they are tall skinny Windows across the front of the house, it's a mid century modern style house. The windows do not open the white covering are the white wood blinds I have inside. I leave them pulled up part way because my little dog loves to lay in them and watch her yard, she fits perfectly, the sills are wide. One window is into the formal living room the others into the formal living room.