thistlebloom
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Every year I plant several containers for one of my clients. I really wanted to do something more unusual this year. I love flowers but feel like I'm in a rut....
so I stopped by a little nursery today that specializes in bedding plants.
Just "to look" and get ideas....NYboy knows where I'm heading!
Yeah, walked out with about 3 flats of plants!
So tell me if this sounds like it will be weird because when I get going sometimes I can't tell.
I thought it would be fun to plant the two containers bracing the entry walk with an "olfactory" theme. So for the thriller I picked up Pineapple sage for it's red blooms and yummy foliage. Then I got two lavenders with interesting foliage that will be tall, but shorter than the Pineapple sage. They are a French lavender and a Jagged lavender. I'll plug in tricolor sage, purple sage, Berggarten sage, and apple mint. Around the edge the trailers will be orange mint, allyssum, and a Supertunia "White Russian. Hopefully passersby will want to touch them and get the benefit of the fragrance.
Or it could be a dud and they'll never trust me to do their entry pots ever again!
so I stopped by a little nursery today that specializes in bedding plants.
Just "to look" and get ideas....NYboy knows where I'm heading!
Yeah, walked out with about 3 flats of plants!
So tell me if this sounds like it will be weird because when I get going sometimes I can't tell.
I thought it would be fun to plant the two containers bracing the entry walk with an "olfactory" theme. So for the thriller I picked up Pineapple sage for it's red blooms and yummy foliage. Then I got two lavenders with interesting foliage that will be tall, but shorter than the Pineapple sage. They are a French lavender and a Jagged lavender. I'll plug in tricolor sage, purple sage, Berggarten sage, and apple mint. Around the edge the trailers will be orange mint, allyssum, and a Supertunia "White Russian. Hopefully passersby will want to touch them and get the benefit of the fragrance.
Or it could be a dud and they'll never trust me to do their entry pots ever again!
