How Does Your Garden Grow?

 This is that wonderful time of year when gardens  are full of promise and blooms in every color~ and time for my friend Jen and I to take our traditional trip to Russell’s Nursery!  Every year we visit and chose from their unique and bountiful selection of perennial plants, annuals and herbs for our borders, pots and trellises.

While Jen ‘tiptoed through the tulips’,  I walked among the roses and found some beauties to share with you. Roses have come a long way from the fragile, disease-prone plants of yesteryear. Today there are Knock-Out varieties that bloom all season and colors to match every fabric… take a peek.

Isn’t this a pretty shade of yellow?

This apricot is so soft,  it would compliment a deeper orange hue as well.

Love this trendy orange….

These are rainbow  sherbet roses~ makes me feel like getting  an ice cream cone,  how about you?

If you look closely at these roses you can see the double petals–and they are climbers too, love them!

These wooden supports come in all sizes and shapes to aid your roses and other plants

I spotted these chic containers, perfect for a terrace garden

 …and these more traditional terra cotta containers for a patio

Time to get back to the flowers.  Poppies are one of my favorites in the garden…

When the flowers are closed their little heads droop and they seem so heavy~but then the pod opens and the petals slowly unfurl and unravel like wrinkled tissue paper into beautiful transparent paper-like petals.  The centers can be dark and threadlike and dance in the wind.  This is a flower with many transformations…just like some of us.

Poppies showing off

Poppies all in a row

Whatever (or wherever) you choose to plant this year, consider a tour of your local nursery to see what is growing and try something new in your garden~ you may just fall in love …

“Mary Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells, and cockle shells
And pretty  maids all in a row.”

~Traditional Nursery Rhyme

xo,

Pamela

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