Aaaaahhhhhhhhhh I love flowers!!! velvet red coleus! plum frost coleus! red gerber daisies! purple and red and white petunias! red and orange and yellow celosia! AND I FINALLY GOT MY ORANGE HIBISCUS PLANT! and the lilies are growing and my dahlias are growing and they’re so freakin pretty!
pant, pant, pant
yes kids, it’s the little things like gardening on a beautiful day that make life better. 
Lucky you. I have a poinsettia that I haven’t killed yet (it has nine curled-up leaves on a very stringy stem), and a dracena that just keeps coming back from the dead (can’t decide whether to call it ‘jesus’ or ‘buddha’). My weeds, however, are well-flourishing.
Again, lucky you. At least the flowers my neighbor planted outside my window (it’s a shared garden area) are very nice to look at, but then again, he’s a professional gardener.
(Too darned hot to garden today - it’s about 95 outside right now, and I am personally thanking Mr. Carrier for his wonderful invention of indoor air-conditioning.)
Lucky me indeed. 
I forgot to mention my hanging basket of pink and white fuschia, and my new favorite flower, fire-and-ice gloxinia. Too bad it sounds like a medicine or disease!
Alas, I am stuck with only a windowsill, but rest assured that its covered with flowers. Red geraniums, pink-red geraniums, a deep pink Martha Washington geranium, deep pink kalanchoe, and…and…a deep pink and purple fuschia that my hummingbirds looooveee! I want to get another fuschia for them! This is the first year the hummies have visited me and I want to make sure they know they’re welcome. I also have a purple-flowered, fuzzy-leafed plant that I took off the windowsill because some of the leaves were getting sunburned. It’s been blooming since January, I think.
I’m a notoriously slow walker because I’ve got to look at every flower, plant and bird along the way. Long may they live!
You have HUMMINGBIRDS?!!? Oooooooooh, I hate you in such a jealous way. All I have is a bunch of mourning doves right now, and they sit on the back porch, whining and tormenting HyperKitty.
I am considering going to Home Despot tomorrow to pick up some plants after my workout. I want some pretty plants outside my door, something other than weeds.
And yes, I meant to spell Home Depot like that. Evil, evil place, almost as bad as Wal*Mart, with many things to covet and buy!
I finally got some planters and flowering plants and this weekend have put them into the planters for my patio–wow, what a great feeling it was working with the plants and putting them into the dirt, then seeing the final result! I got some pansies (purple, deep pink) and orange, white and double pink impatiens as well as a two marigold plants - I’m planning on making a planter of herbs as well and hoping that the marigold will keep the bad bugs off.
As I explained elsethread, I think I’ve been channeling both Grandmoms, bless their souls, because both of them loved to garden and had beautiful flowers (and veggies) in their yards. They’ve both been gone since I was a young teen, unfortunately, but I’m keeping their memories going, I hope.
:wally
Screechie, I have at least two hummies. Both of the Anna’s variety, I believe. One has a full red head and the other just has a little dot of color at her throat. I’m hoping they have a tiny thimble-sized nest with two or three itty bitty baby hummies in it. If so, I hope I get to see them soon.
Why not skip Home Despot and go to a real nursery? They may be a little more expensive but they’re much more fun to wander around and the plants they sell tend to be healthier. If you get one that isn’t, they seem to be good about refunds or exchanges. Plus, they’re more knowlegeable about what they sell.
Flowers, flowers everywhere. Wooohooo!
I’d love to, but the decent nurseries around here are wholesale only. And the couple of retail ones that were any good are now housing developments and tot lots. Not impressed with the rest (service-wise).