Plant's from Annie's Annuals

This morning I have been working on turning the soil in the Side Flowerbed. I should be done by tomorrow morning . Then the planting begins!

This is my list of plants from Annies:
3 Adenophora potaninii "Bush Ladybells"
3 Agrostemma gihago "Ocen Pearls"
5 Alonsoa meridonalis "Apricot"
4 Alonsoa meridonalis "Red"
3 Anagallis momellii "Blue Pimpernel"
2 Cheiranthus x Allioni "Siberian Wallflower" Orange
4 Eschscholzia californica "Apricot Chiffon"
7 Eschscholzia californica "Rose Chiffon"
1 Eschscholzia californica "Alba"
5 Nemophilia menziesii "Baby Blue Eyes"
3 Penstemon helerophyllus "Blue Springs
2 Plectranthus zuluensis
2 Tellima grandiflora "Fringe cups"
2 Verbascum hybrid "Southern Charm"
2 Verbascum chaixii "Album"
2 mimulus puniceus
1 clianthus puniceus "Parrot's Beak"
1 Hollyhock "Double Azalea"
1 Sideritis Orotenerifee "Canary Island White Sage
1 aeonium noble (succulent)
1 Lewisia cotyledon "White Splendor"
Anagallis monellii

My Yard Layout

This is our yard plan I did years ago and just updated a bit today.
Our home is on the bottom border with only the Kitchen alcove showing in the drawing. The gray path is gravel, the brown is made up of bricks.



The areas I have been working on are in the back: the Back Flower Bed and the Olive Tree Area.
The playhouse was build around 1974. The merry-go-round came from our kids school. To dangerous for a school but we never had an injury on it at our house.


Only the pretty permanent fictures are shown on this plan but you can use transparencies to put plants, ect. that are not quite so permanent on top. I haven't added the water outlets and electricity on the plan yet but will.

Today, I pulled out the African Daisies and started spading up the Olive Tree Area.

We need to set a date to visit Annie's Annuals by the end of September!

The Inhabitants of the Garden

Joeseph, our dog with a coat of many colors

I'm annoyed with him this morning because while I was working on the brick path behind the flowerbeds he decided to lay down in the back flowerbed...of all the back yard, he decides that is the spot! Fortunately, he managed not to squash anything....he would not have made his 13th birthday if he had (just kidding). I hadn't thrown away some of the metal garden fences we had to protect the plants from Talley, our old bassett hound that is now in the garden in the sky. I am going to have to put them around the back flowerbed to protect my little baby plants, darn. I like to see them without the fences: ( But better than having them smashed and destroyed.


Hausey
Hausey lives in my little garden room behind the greenhouse. Hausey loves to eat snails.


Cupid
Cupid lives in my little garden room also. He was my aunt's so there is a bit of my Aunt Edna in my little garden. He is very quiet and never flies away. He has lost his bow so it is up to individuals to find their own love now.


The Honey Bees
The Honey Bees live on the right of the back flowerbed and the olive tree. They are very busy right now, and they better be! This summer has been so cool it is called "The summer that never was". The bees better stock up, winter is coming and who knows what it is going to be like. Don't you just love the little "Birdhouse" hive! The bees had swarmed someone's yard and decided to take over their birdhouse. George, my sweet son-in-law, was given the task of removing the bees from the yard. So, he took house and all and made an addition on the back and now they reside in MY back yard. I love them. I am hoping they will appreciate all the new flowers that should be appearing in the spring!