It's a beautiful day in my neighborhood!! I'm giddy!! Can ya' tell??
The super WalMart had purple Petunias. Yep. I almost screamed when I saw them.
See, the purple Petunias at WalMart are fragrant. And it seems that ONLY WalMart carries fragrant puprle Petunias. I made this discovery a few years ago. I bought a hanging pot of purple Petunias and hung them on my shepehrd's hook. I noticed whenever I was watering that there was this great perfume. I finally figured out that it was the Petunias. The next season there were no hanging pots but I found a regular pot of purple Petunias. I set those on the back deck. The entire deck smelled good all summer long. Today, I was looking for tree rings in the garden center and there they were. Fragrant as ever!! I could smell them as I walked through the store, as I walked out to the car, in the car and when I got home to hang them. They smell like HEAVEN!!!
OK, so only a dyed in the wool plant person would find themselves guilty of this: gardening in the WalMart parking lot hahahahahahaha oh yes! I was out there deadheading my Petunias before I put them in the car. Hey! I'm not carrying home the wilted blooms! If anyone saw me they must have thought I was nuts. Oh, whatever! I'm in my happy place. Go to yours.
Whatever ate my Pansies also ate my Bluebells and my Violets. I have no idea what's eating them so I have no idea how to keep "it" away from the garden. Rabbits? Groundhog? I'm thinking Groundhog. The little marauder. When he sticks to eating the Dandelions, I'm down with it. When he starts moving on to the flowers I have planted, not so much.
The weather today is superfantabulous! It is sunny with a light breeze somewhere in the 70s. I'm savoring it.
Tomorrow, hopefully I can find tree rings and hardware cloth for the Dogwood and Redbud.
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