GARDENING FUN

We had a lot of fun today. This morning John and I were going to go to Panama Pottery to buy some pots. And we also had plans to go to Green Acres to buy a tomato plant.  Eventually this turned into a fun outing which included Lynda and Kim as well as John and me, and everybody ended up buying numerous plants, soil, and pots.  We only made it to Green Acres. Green Acres is a really cool nursery and we all love going there.  They also sell pots, so we  never got to Panama Pottery.  

Linda has gardens where she lives next door to us, at the duplex she owns, and has now taken over the old firehouse down the street from us as a gardening project.

Kim lives next door to her brother and she takes care of the gardens for both those houses. John mostly takes care of all our gardening and I also take care of the traffic circle for the neighborhood association.

We did buy the tomato plant and we also bought a well-established foxglove,  a really interesting red and pink geranium, some columbine, and a big pink impatiens.  It's a good thing we took Kim's car.  We couldn't have gotten all this stuff in the Corolla.

The columbine and the impatiens are slated to go in the front corner garden. The geranium will be added to the plethora of geraniums we already have which are many interesting varieties and colors.  And then I bought a petunia to put in the hanging pot and some coleus which, once I got it home, I realized would make a nice border around some ferns in the backyard, so we have another trip coming.

When we got home Dennise and Dave were here with the cute little dogs Dennise has adopted, and we all went over to Café Daneli and had a very late brunch, actually, since it was my only meal today, and now at 7 pm I'm still not hungry, I'm thinking it was brunner.  On the way back we took Kim over to see the tile house.

Tonight Lynda and I and maybe Kim, are dyeing Easter eggs.  

The cool thing about this house is that it it entirely covered with handmade tiles.  It's an old house like ours, so I imagine there was a lot of resistence to this in the neighborhood as the project went along.  I think it's been in progress for at least twenty or so years.  I can remember at least 15 years ago that they had mostly one wall done.