I bought four pots of Proven Winners “Flying Colors” Diascia hybrid to replace the pansies in the window boxes at #11.
\nPeter decided they’d be better off here, though, so I’m integrating them into my flower boxes on the porch.<\/p>
\nThere were on sale and dry as a bone, but they had potential, even with the piles of dead stems that I pruned out by the handful. After only a couple of days of watering, they are looking quite good.
\nThe flowers are a deep salmon pink, and the plants are very healthy, with lots of buds; they should bloom well into the Fall.
\nOne pot is on the front steps, one is on the porch railing, one is in a basket and I used the fourth to replace some spring annuals that had pretty much gone by.
\nWe’ve had a VERY dry summer, and Mashpee has a water ban between 8 in the morning and 7 at night. I don’t envy those gardeners who are trying to grow vegetables.
\nIn the bigger gardens, the coriopsis and the annuals (marigolds, petunias, a couple of the sweetpeas, zinnias) are holding on. Everything else – larkspur, even the hostas – are done.
\nI added the Flickr zeitgeist widget to the Blog today, which is sort of fun, got the idea from Peter. Hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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