With silver bells and cockleshells and pretty maids all in a row.NO! Much to my dismay I am not much of a green thumb. I kill things quickly and thoroughly. Seriously, I potted new plants the week before out of town company came. I watered and fertilized and they were dead before the next weekend! I'm sure some of it might be my lack of patience. Okay, maybe all of it! I tried to plant flowers in the spring with seed packets from my Mother-in-law. After getting up and down to retrieve Little Moo from the street (relax we live on a cul-de-sac!) or the garage and not making much progress planting the tiny little seeds I just sprinkled the seeds all over the flower beds and convinced myself that it was fine since we were even sure anything would grow in the soil we have anyway. Shocker, nothing grew. Not only did nothing grow, but I planted some lily and dahlia bulbs (that I purchased at a store) and they didn't even so much as sprout. To make things worse I let some weeds get out of hand because I wasn't sure if they were the things I actually planted..
And then.
The bachelor buttons and one Zinnia (I think) bloomed in my flower beds. I was so excited that I was able to grow something! Not only that, but my Mother-in-law also was kind enough to bring some more dahlia bulbs that I planted in our back yard. I very carefully planted them, even researching the correct way to do it ( I didn't really want to be a complete failure to the Mom-in-law) and low and behold all of them grew into plants and a couple have even bloomed! Hurray for my wonderful flowers! To be fair I should probably give them all the credit, they were resilient to my efforts to deny them their very purpose. To you flowers I say BRAVO!
My only problem now is that grasshoppers (I think) are making a tasty meal of my very pretty flowers. As if they didn't have enough to overcome!
