How Does My Garden Grow
Only a couple more weeks til I start planting for summer!
Some of my favorites are:
Morning Glories
on my back deck.
I planted about 6 tiny (I’m talking lone, spindly stems about 4 inches long) morning glories in May last year.
Two on either side of the deck stairs and one on each side of the deck.
In a few months, they looked like this and lasted through October when I cut them down!
Succulents
And who doesn’t love a good succulent – in an old mop bucket?
I leave this out year round – ignore it completely
and it thrives!
Hanging Ferns and Coleus
on my front porch.
Potato Vine, Begonia, Petunia and Licorice Vine
spilling from big metal pots.
Forsynthia
Forget wreaths – how about an umbrella filled with forsythia to welcome in spring.
Weeping cherry tree
lazing the day away in an adirondack chair in my backyard.
I have big plans for my containers this summer – stay tuned.
They’re not your every day pots!
beautiful–love the morning glories!
Your front porch is just gorgeous!
Sweet! You’ve named all my favourites too!! Your plants look awesome and I love that front door!
Have a great week,
xox
Kelley,
I live in the garden of the garden state and if I don’t get started on the first day of spring I am soon left with something that resembles the Amazon jungle complete with saber-toothed insects {especially green heads aka horse flies.] Your porch looks lovely. I look forward to reading about your containers.
Deborah
Hey Kelley! Love everything about your front porch! ANd those Adirondack chairs look so inviting! Great job!!! Heather 🙂
You have big plans for your containers, I have big containers for my plans. Hope it works out for both of us!
~Bliss~
Kelly – gorgeous photos! It’s a lot of work to keep things green! I have Morning Glories also – but way too many of them! I started with one seed packet and every year I pull and pull but still have them… Our hot Texas summers don’t allow the vines to stay nice so I’m over them! Wish me luck… If only mine looked as nice as yours!
Oh my, this gives me summer fever something fierce. Those succulents in the bucket! ~swoon~
Slam dunk, my friend… looking forward to seeing what your summer containers contain… My pots fell apart and my plants are sitting on the side porch wondering what happened!!! Ugh!
Awesome blossom…hee hee! Love all your plants and your containers….but my favorite has to be that umbrella 🙂
🙂 me
You have quite the green thumb! Your morning glories are exceptional. My favorite is the forsythia in the umbrella-so creative!
I love how the plants look in that old mop bucket. That is such a great idea..
It all looks beautiful! Morning glories sure give a lot of bang for the buck.
Gorgeous garden! Mine is just popping out now, but it gets so darn hot here, we have much different kinds of flowering plants. Thanks for sharing.
PS I adore your ferns. My mother had ferns my whole child hood. Some she had for years. She treated them like my 5th and 6th siblings. They are gorgeous when cared for like that. (kind of strange though)
Did she talk to the ferns – not judging (just saying)!! Or worse, did you talk to them – Karen to Fern, “that’s my necklace, give it back”!! Fern to Karen, silence!
You have such a gorgeous entryway! And loving all your planters and plants. I think I may try some morning glories on an ugly chain link fence in my backyard.
Are the hanging ferns hardy (as in can I ignore them and will they stay green?) … I’m very good at killing plants, but really excel with the hanging ones …
🙂
Linda
I just hang the ferns and water every once in awhile. When some of the leaves turn brown, I just pull them off and it still looks great! I think this is the perfect Linda plant!
I totally pinned the umbrella from here because I don’t ever think I did. And you have so many awesome plants and buckets and random coolness. Sorry to not see any random gnomes in the mix, but I did catch the pink flamingo peaking under your willow.
Any secrets on the morning glories? Mine were chomped down to the ground by bunnies last year but I’d really love to grow them this year!
I have no secret – only that I try to plant things that don’t require much maintenance!! Maybe you could put some wire around the vines until they get bigger to protect them from those pesky bunnies! Squirrels like to eat my tomatoes and hibiscus!
Wow, so completely coveting the morning glories on your back deck! Oh, how I miss those! Too hot and dry for them here in L.A. I also love the urns with potato vines and hanging ferns! Super gorge!!!
xo-Lisa
I love morning glories — it’s one of the FEW things that I can grow (maybe because they come up year after year without any help from me!). All of your arrangements are beautiful!
OOOh. I love the morning glories. And the succulents..they might survive at my house if they thrive on neglect. You have some lovely plants and obviously a green thumb!
Angie
oh…just gorgeous!!!! LOVE!!! 🙂
Absolutly beautiful Kelly! I love all your plants!
Green thumbs up!
Debbie
Gorgeous Kelly! Can’t wait to see your big plans. I can’t plan for plants…I am not very good with them! I am trying though:) Have a great night.
Oh. my. gosh. Your morning glories are stunning! We have azaleas in our back yard that I’m quite fond of, but I really want to add some hydrangeas and flowers everywhere!
Hydrangeas are my favorites – planted a dozen last year! Love cutting them for inside.
So pretty! We had morning glories 2 houses ago and they got so crazy, I had to go to my neighbors yard and cut them back! They had went through the fence and went just nuts! (they did not like them?) I thought they were crazy. lol
Those morning glories do like to spread – but I think the neighbors are crazy!!
Love them all–but especially the succulents 😉
Oh I love your choices – do the morning glories take over everything? They are so beautiful, I won’t regret putting them in will I? We have a weed variety here that chokes out everything, but your’s are so gorgeous it’d be worth the risk. My favorite are Hosta – that is when they escape the deer eating them down each spring…
The morning glories didn’t take over – they grew like crazy up my deck but didn’t spread. But I can see how they would need to be tamed! I love Hosta too – I planted a dozen on the side of my house – green and white variety and they look amazing. My other faves are hydrangeas!! Planted a dozen of those too!
Can I just come enjoy your yard and porch instead of working on my own?? 🙂 Gorgeous. Hoping this weekend is good weather so I can tackle a bit of this myself.
xo Heidi
Come on over – I’ll have a cocktail waiting for you!
This post is AMAZING Jersey Girl!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!! hugs…
wow your garden is lovely! Things are just getting going here. so beautiful
Your gardens are beautiful. Love your potted plants too, especially the bucket with succulents. You must really have a green thumb.
Mary Alice
Oh man, I just love your home! So beautiful!
xo Becca
My neighbor gave me some succulents last year & now i’m hooked! yours in the wash bucket are super cute! I host a garden party that starts up again next Thursday (May 3rd) would love to see you link up sometime! xoox tracie
hi Kelly ~ it’s definitely a gorgeous spring at your house. I particularly love your door decoration in the umbrella, so clever and fresh! Everything looks wonderful, thanks for sharing 🙂
Gorgeous! We just moved into a new house last week and I have been a planting fool! just added forsythia to my mile-long list!
Melissa
http://www.thehappierhomemaker.com
Sorry for the delayed reply – this was in my spam folder for some reason! Good luck with your new house – how fun to plant til your hearts content!
Beautiful…..
Beautiful! I have had ZERO luck with morning glories and I just love their look. I will just have to try again. I’m successful with succulents and I love yours in their old mop bucket.