a Monday at home (planting)

I tell myself that I don't have a holding bed, I mean - I haven't purposefully dug up an area and designated it as such.  But yesterday morning I was looking at the area under one of my live oak trees, and I'm thinking that I'd better get planting and transplanting - still in pots was a satsuma, another chaste tree, a copper plant, japanese irises (note the plural), a beautiful white swamp iris, a variegated abutilon (Abutilon pictum 'Souvenir de Bonn') and recently obtained 'passalong' plants from a friend living on the Gulf Coast of Florida - in the ground (but in the right spot?), a few ferns and hydrangeas.  My goal for the day:  to get all of this sorted out!  Perhaps with a margarita in hand (it is a holiday, right?). 

But what a nice day to spend in the garden - the tobacco jasmine mingles with the lacecap hydrangeas, the magnolias are in bloom (my large southern magnolia has so many blossoms on it this year that you can smell them throughout the entire front garden), and the blueberries are ripening.  Plus, it's a Monday and I'm at home!

Time to plant.

Comments

[anna maria]

Beautiful plants, so lush and green! Is the tobacco jasmine the same as nicotiana? Sure looks like it. Nicotiana is another one (besides Hollyhocks) that reminds me of my dad.

[Pam]

Anna Maria - yes, the tobacco jasmine is a Nicotiana sp. I got the seed from Select Seeds a year or two ago - I never really grew them before, but now they are definitely one of my favorites. I have a deep purple one as well.