Early June Flowers

Hello Everyone.  

Thought I would share my early June flowers.  It has been less than a month and I am already seeing my flowers double in size.

My iron planter flowers were barely over the edge of this planter a month ago and now they are down the front and heading towards the ground.  I know by July these will fill in and you will not even see the iron on the planter.

My bags are filling in nicely.  I love these rose impatiens.  They look like tiny roses.

I love that all the bags are doing so well.  I decided to use hanging flower bags on the deck posts this year.

This is what I am most excited about.  My climbing roses are training well and growing up to the middle of the arch sides already.  I am hoping at this rate they will cover the archway completely by August.

I love how many blooms these climbers have.  They will be so pretty once they get up over the arch and fill out.

This is the first time for these hydrangeas out by the picket.  They seem to like it very much too.

The pink petunia's are speading nicely too.

The knockout roses I planted last year have come back and are growing nicely.  I love how many roses these produce and continue to produce throughout the summer and into the fall.

They are doing exactly what I wanted to see them do after I planted them last year.  They are intermingling between the picket fence.  Eventually the roses on both sides will fill in the fence so nicely.

My white petunia plant is going gangbusters on the chippy chair on my porch.  You can barely see the chippy chair.

Petunia's love the weather here in the midwest.  This one has almost doubled in size in the past three weeks.  I am sure by the end of July into August it will be down to the patio floor.
Some of you have asked how I get my flowers to grow so big and beautiful.
I start with a great garden center and then I feed with miracle grow once a week and water everyday.  Sometime I water twice in a day if the temps are hot.

If the weather is decent this weekend I hope to paint the porch and sidewalk.  I think I will be painting it white like the trim.

The only thing that will hold up the painting will be if they start the new roof, siding and gutters on the house.  We had considerable hail damage and our insurance is going to pay to have them all replaced.

I really was not looking forward to a big project like this during the summer months but I guess you have to be on the insurance and contractors schedule. :(

My sweet little cottage will be getting a true makeover.  I hope I can protect my flowers during this time.  They told me three days to do all the work.  Hmmm will see about that!

This little cottage will have everything new.  We built the garage when we moved in last July and put in new windows and did all the renovations inside.  We just recently put in a new driveway and deck off the back of the house.  Once the siding and roof and gutters are done this little house will have all her major parts being brand new.