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My Red, White and Blue Garden

Hi there! It has been a few weeks since my last post and I am not sure where the time has gone. All I know is that is has been busy in my little life, as I am sure it has been in yours. Lately, I have been trying to get my yard ready for the summer. I have a few meetings coming up having to do with my floral design business and I wanted the yard to look nice. It is hard work and I am pretty sure that is where my time has gone~

However, nothing I have done so far in the garden is really photograph-worthy. I am still trying to get the gardens established after the winter damage and dealing with some missing plants due to vole devastation! Every year has a new challenge. It just so happens that I found some pictures of my garden from a few years ago and thought I would share them with you. This will have to suffice until this year's garden starts to look pretty. I am hoping these photos will give me, and perhaps you, some summertime inspiration.

As I said, this is my side garden from a few years ago. The photos were taken in June but, it looks like I was getting ready for the Fourth of July, judging from all the flags.

Every year I plant this garden in red, white and blue because I have red Adirondack chairs on the deck, which sits next to this garden.

However, this year I decided to change it up. I thought it was time to go with a different color scheme. I like changing things every now and then but, after seeing these photos I am beginning to regret my decision. The fact that I have been having a terrible time finding the right kind of flowers for my new color scheme hasn't helped.

The new color scheme is blue (always blue, because I love it so much in the garden!), orange, gray, white and touches of purple because true blue is hard to find in garden flowers. I will need to downplay the red chairs to make this work; I am afraid.

It looks like I used a large assortment of flowers in this garden. From the front of the garden to the back I used blue lobelia, white and red begonias, green and red coleus, white and red snapdragons, some fever few and tucked in the back is Jacob's Ladder.

I see some foxglove in the back, as well.

I forgot that there is perennial lady's mantle in the garden also. The plants don't seem to be as healthy this year and I am wondering if the voles have been eating the roots over the winter. They really can be a pain!

This was one of the planters I put together for the side deck. Now, I am really rethinking my decision to change up the colors! This planter looks so pretty!

If my idea to change up the colors turns out to be a bust, I am not sharing the pictures with you guys. I will keep this little disaster to myself :). We will see what happens. I should know in a month or so.