Good morning to all. Its a beautiful 67 degrees in July !!!! What is up with that??? We will take it.
Sooo.... I took a hand full of Cosmos seeds and threw them in this flower bed by the garden. This is what happened. Cosmos are my favorite flower because they are beautiful and easy to grow. They are an inexpensive annual to toss in amongst your hardy perrinials.
My true love of flowers came from my Mother. My mother could toss a rock on the ground and grow a flower from it. Growing up I recall our yard was the most colorful in the neighborhood. My mother would sit at the kitchen table with flower books that had came in the mail and plan her colorful nature escape in the yard.
She would show me what she was going to plant next and explain to me what each and every flower was. I as a kid thought at first, this is something else to mow around, then when the flowers bloomed it was like the fourth of July in our yard. We always had the prettiest yard in the neighborhood. Hundreds of different flowers popping their pretty little heads up at different times of the year. My mother new when to separate and move different flowers and make new floral worlds all over our yard,each bringing different birds and butterflies to watch.
Soo... I came by the love of flowers naturally. My mother taught me a thing or two about growing just about any flower. I continue to plant and experiment and take any free starts off other gardners. The yellow sunflowers in the pictures are starts off my mothers and are perennials.
Sooo... Don't be afraid of flower gardening. Build your Cosmo's world, or whatever flower world you dream. Enjoy them and have fun planning and planting. Remember!!!! Plant hardy perrinials with a splash of annuals and no worrying over them. You will have a beautiful garden in no time.
