Porch Flowers 2014: Shopping at Rosedale with Sam

Why is it that choosing my annuals for the porch and patio pots is always such a conundrum? Every year I fret and waiver: should I get these? Which flowers? What color combinations? I know, I know: #firstworldproblems.

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Sam pulls the wagon at Rosedale.

But you would think by now I would just have a container plan in mind and get the same ones every year. But I don’t. I nearly got those red cascadia petunias above. But instead, went back to pink geraniums. I added a little white verbena and purple petunia — the standard size — too:

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Sam helped plant:

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The same petunias for the hanging baskets:lj052914garden20

And back to the geranium-petunia-verbena combo on the porch itself:lj052914garden21 lj052914garden22

In the back, I went for more verbena, but a bright orange-yellow flower, along with some orange cascadia petunias, and a little purple heliotrope for contrast and height. I put lavender in the other pot.

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A quick shot of an iris:

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And the same little bed with the coreopsis:lj052914garden29 lj052914garden30 lj052914garden31

 

And Tasha’s peonies, which are blooming nicely!

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A last look at our redwood set before it goes. I must admit, I will miss it a bit. It is so beautiful and sleek.lj052914garden32 lj052914garden33

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