What color is your thumb?

One of the things I can't wait for each year is planting flowers. In Utah, we always had to wait until after Mother's Day to plant, because there was sure to be one last hard freeze before then. I had built up quite the extensive collection of pots to plant in, but Maris said they didn't fit in the truck to come down here and they weren't a priority. Honestly, they didn't fit. So now I have only one pot to plant in...but I get to plant it in APRIL!! Yay!!I'm sure I'll have more...I just can't bring myself to pay full price for them so I wait for sale pots!

I love the color of annuals, so I decided to get a few to plant in our beds in the front. Tyler and Maris like these...

...and the price was *right* so I got them. But I haven't planted them yet.

And I love these little beauties:

When we got home and I started to dig, I totally remember that I hate annuals. At least in the beds. I remember that I only plant perennials in my beds and that is why I like pots, so I can plant annuals. In nice, clean dirt.

The puppies watched from the window, as I planted and Maris mowed and fertilized and poisoned. We are starting on flea control early around here...

I'm afraid it might be too late to start early on weed control, but we're working on it. We are thinking of letting a few in the backyard grow and call them trees. Living on the greenbelt has it's upsides...

Aw, perennials. I love Lantana and this year I got a purple one:

This is a perennial too, I don't know what it is, but it had a cute purple flower on it and that fills all of my requirements. It must be cute and it must be purple.

I hate this Holly Bush. When we moved in and it was here, I thought I loved it. I'm surprised that the builder put it in, because I thik Holly Bushes are expensive, especially big ones. I wish I had a crepe myrtle there instead. It struggled with some kind of bug on it that I finally got rid of last summer (I think it was aphids...) and wasps swarm it constantly because of all the holly flower buds on it.



Remember last year when I got stung by the big reddish brown ugly wasp on my arm and it swelled up to the size of Rhode Island?

THAT is who loves the Holly Bush.


We just try to steer clear of the Holly Bush.

Finally, we dug out that flat bush with no personality and put in this red tipped fiery beauty. It will grow a little taller and we can keep it pruned below the house numbers...


I think I love it already.

In other news:


It was class pictures yesterday and Aliza is beautiful.


Parker is growing Lima beans:

And Tyler is taller than me.
He wasn't 2 weeks ago.


We took the Laurels and Mia Maids to Krispy Kreme last night:


K, before I go, I have to tell you about Parker and the school picture. Do you remember in February when Parker was wearing the red basketball shorts and the red under armor and they were different colors of red, but he likes to dress mono chromatically and it was Valentine's Day, so I let him?
For school pictures yesterday he tried to wear a pair of kelly green basketball shorts and a Prosper green t-shirt that said "Prosper Baseball" or something... I made him go back up (kicking and screaming) to change. He came back down in a pair of light blue basketball shorts and a too small from last year polo shirt that was powdery blue in color...
I can't even remember what we finally settled on, but it was NOT monochromatic and it fit.
The End.