I have these little terracotta pots installed under the windows of the front row cottages. I like the way that looks except I have never been able to find the right flowers to plant in there that will last all summer.
The first year I had them, I stuck plastic flowers in there. Blech! what a mistake that was; every time I walked by there, they reminded me of those dreadful plastic flowers people put on grave sites. Then I kept on buying pansies and stuck them in there. That looks nice in the early spring, but by the end of spring/beginning of summer, those little things had grown necks so long, they nearly could bump their pretty, little heads on the sidewalk. Blech!
This year I listened to none other than Jane from Putney’s in Arcadia. You know of whom I speak if you’ve been with me here since April 😉
Jane told me to use 3 Impatiens for every pot: 1 white, 1 orange and 1 red and watch the beauty unfold. OMGosh she was so right. The Impatiens are absolutely wonderful to look at and they are no work at all. In the spring, when they looked so bedraggled still and had nothing to show for, I would not have believed that they could look this good.
Thank you Jane
cottage 4
cottage 5
The pots look beautiful! I love impatiens. They’re one of the few flowers that flourish in the shade.
I never think of them and when I look in the spring, they look so half dead, I never would pick them. Jane made me buy them.
Yes, this is the kind of summer impatiens love. Little sun, lots of shade and rain! They need lots of water. :))
I plant them under the trees in my backyard. I love how they look when they are in full bloom.
I bet that looks beautiful, Ivanker
It would be even more beautiful if there weren’t a big clumsy puppy in the backyard that felt the need to step on said impatiens!!
Would you believe that some of those gorgeous impatiens got a touch of frost last night and have died off?
I couldn’t believe my eyes this morning. The ones by cottages 1, 3 and 4. #’s 2, 5 and 6 are just fine. How weird. 😦
Oh yes, clumsy puppies = joy 🙂