(These were a gift from my oldest son for Mother's Day. He picked all of these flowers from his own yard. ) 

I had a great day yesterday – I bought flowers for my picket fence.  Purple and white holly hocks; pink, yellow, and white snapdragons; purple salvia;  orange, yellow, and pink daisy.  I bought some hanging coral colored flowers for my porch.  I spent way more than I’d planned and I will be saving in other areas to make up for this indulgence! I love flowers.  I celebrate the entrance of summer with a splash of color everywhere.

As soon as I got home from the nursery, I began to dig.  I couldn’t wait for one second to go by to start the process.  It was almost 90 degrees, and I found it hard to even think about the placement of the flowers.  I started having day-dreams and hallucinations about having a professional landscaper placing all these beauties in that “just right” clusters and positions.  But dig away I did.  And when I got them all dug, I started un-digging them right back up, not liking where I’d placed them, and rearranging them.

End Result: The flowers themselves are beautiful.  My placement of them – not what I’d hoped for.  I need to find my notebook that has all my pictures of cottage picket fence flowers and re-do it all over again!