#Either Shasta daisy or lavender

[askmercenary]

Handle bean Naib with care (please don't eat them)

[He's chillin with a mystery sprout dw]

[fourthage]

And now, more garden pictures that no one asked for!

I planted my creeping thyme (3 varieties!) between my stepping stones.  As the name indicates, they’re all spreaders.  The idea is that they will eventually encompass the stepping stones and release a lovely fragrance (and add a bit of color when they bloom).  Of course, once they get to that point I’ll have to be diligent about keeping them contained, but that’s a ways down the road yet.  The thyme is towards the front, since it needs full sun, and I planted the Blue Pratia further back by the faucet because it likes partial sun/shade.

I also planted two shasta daisies in front of my lavender on either side of the walkway.  Looking ahead, I got two pots for my bee balm (shallow one) and milkweed (taller one - have deeper roots), since they are both aggressive spreaders if left to their own devices.

And lastly, a picture of one of my established tulips.  The new ones are up, but are a couple weeks behind (no buds yet).

[rjalker]

As of today (8/5/17) my garden contains:

One pink/blue hydrangea

red gerbera daisies

four sunflowers

chamomile

one grape vine

One red raspberry bush

Two golden raspberry bushes

3 black mulberry trees (very small babies)

Two kiwi vines

6 grapefruit seedlings

Two orange seedlings

One lemon three

Zion african daisies

a small maple seedling

A mystery seedling that is either a plum or an apricot

10 apple seelings of various sizes

One cherry seedling

4 strawberry plants

Garden sage

one goju berry bush

One thorny blackberry

four thornless blackberries

One (tiny, probably not going to do anything because it decided to be dumb) scarlet runner bean not-even-a-vine

One purple butteffly bush

one window box of carrots

Five gladioluses

one red muberry tree (again, it’s a small child)

One tiny baby lilac bush saved from the clearance section

three watermelon plants (only one watermelon growing so far. there were two, but bugs drilled a hole through the smaller one. so rude)

One pot of indian strawberries

One hardy kiwi fine

One belgica honeysuckle vine

Three petunias (one yellow, one white and pink, and one purple with white spots)

One flower-of-an-hour

One geranium

Two chocolate mint plants

Two rose bushes (one yellow and pink, the other a mystery)

Red/pink dianthus

Shasta daisy

Fleabane

Nightshade (sigh)

Mojito mint x2

pink bee balm x2

Blue larkspur

Walker’s low catnip

REAL catnip which I’m going to call skunkmint from now on (because it smells like skunk but the cats got ABSOLUTELY INSANE OVER IT. Seriously. They will lick my hands and any part of my clothes that touched the plant. I’m not joking. Meanwhile they’re completley ‘meh’ about the walker’s low)

Five fuchsias of varying colors

three lantanas, one pink two orange/red

Persian shield

Angelonia

One wedding gown hydrangea that will eventually become a tree,

One baby fig tree,

One pot of pink zinnias

One black raspberry

one pineapple plant

A pot of skunkmint and wild violets

A pot of mixed petunias, calibrachea, asylum, and verbena

A pot of mixed lavender and yellow coreopsis

Lucerne blue-eyed grass

coreopsis by itself,

and pink speedwell.