![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Garden
I should have been at MediaWest*Con this weekend. :-(
Instead, we planted flowers. This is typically a mid-June activity for us, sometimes later (sometimes *much* later), so it was very strange to be at the local nursery when it was full of both flowers and people. Last year we got a very late start, which combined with the shortages and the hard late freeze that necessitated a lot of second plantings, meant that most of the nursery was empty and most of what was left was petunias. Fortunately we like petunias. But this year we wanted a change of pace, so the housemate's side is loaded with marigolds, and my side is overrun with celosia and snapdragons.
And a few of the deep purple petunias, for contrast. ;-)
They didn't have the crenelated-alien-brain celosia that I like for the front edge, but they did have a variety called Flamingo Feather, which is pleasingly frond-y. I'm very curious to see what it looks like when it really gets going.
Instead, we planted flowers. This is typically a mid-June activity for us, sometimes later (sometimes *much* later), so it was very strange to be at the local nursery when it was full of both flowers and people. Last year we got a very late start, which combined with the shortages and the hard late freeze that necessitated a lot of second plantings, meant that most of the nursery was empty and most of what was left was petunias. Fortunately we like petunias. But this year we wanted a change of pace, so the housemate's side is loaded with marigolds, and my side is overrun with celosia and snapdragons.
And a few of the deep purple petunias, for contrast. ;-)
They didn't have the crenelated-alien-brain celosia that I like for the front edge, but they did have a variety called Flamingo Feather, which is pleasingly frond-y. I'm very curious to see what it looks like when it really gets going.