So, Saturday, I only went to Menard's. I thought it best not to go to the other two places because I probably would have spent way more by stopping at all 3 places vs. one!!
I already have "buyer's remorse" just from Menard's, for crying out loud!!
Well, the potential for a larger hit to the wallet and checks bouncing from here to Egypt, was averted anyway!!
Yesterday was just simply gorgeous!!.....Hot, but with nice steady comfortable breezes! After dropping the DH off at work, I went to Home Depot to look at a few annuals and buy just one bag of mulch. I then spent nearly the entire day outside and got all my annual pots planted. I did plant 'Fred Manning', combined with deep red wave petunias, in my feature pots on either side of our porch steps. Just didn't want to spend a ton of money on annuals, nor did I want to spend a lot of time, either, but still, with all of the additional annual plantings, it took nearly all day!
I just have a few "straggler" annuals to find homes for
and a metal planter to scrape and re-paint, that will hold a liner planted with Caladiums for the front porch.
After I brought the DH home from work, he helped me move a larger pot from the back northeast tree garden to the border garden by the garage.
It's planted with Caladiums. The northeast garden will be incorporated in to one continuous mixed "living fence" garden along the east property line. So it's time to visualize that garden as a corner garden, rather than an independent garden, where yellow twig dogwoods will be the backdrop under the tree canopy. The large pot was situated within the spread of those future dogwoods. I put an even larger red pot in a spot further out from the corner (where a low birdbath was located), which will have a dwarf hydrangea planted in it. The low birdbath will move about 30 inches out further from it's original spot, as well. It will be a fun project, but a lot of hard work that has been, and will continue to be, moving at a "puttering pace", due to low energy and finances......well, also some resistance from the "Establishment"...ahem, the DH!
It will certainly continue this year, and it will be an exhausting battle of wills, no doubt!
The "bones" of the east border garden are there, which were planted in 2012. There'll be some tweaking and the footprint is going to change from the original a little bit.
This will be the largest area with full sun conditions, beyond the tree canopy, that I have in the yard. So, well, it will have lots of daylilies adorning it!!
Today, not much got done bc I had an exhausting hearing in Akron, late this morning, and I needed to sleep, by the time I got back home!
So the afternoon was slept off, but it would have been way too hot to work anyway!
This early evening, was spent spot watering and watering the annual pots, while thinking of all the unfinished work that needs done and how I have no energy to do it today!
Tomorrow the plan is to get what's left to plant in the ground before it rains in the mid to late afternoon!
)and you can't fault it for not opening! 
