Dead Flowers
These were the flowers that previously graced our porch. The green of the plant behind it tricks you into thinking it’s still alive, but believe me these have been dead for many months.
Ever since moving into our new apartment last summer, I had fancies of planting flowers on our porch. I love flowers, but much prefer them still on the plant than cut and placed in a vase. One of my favorites, impatiens, was the perfect choice for our shady porch. It’s so much more pleasant to water your own flowers than someone else’s, and these are the first that are truly my own. My parents have wonderful green thumbs, but it was to my brother and I to water the impatiens, and it was certainly one of my least favorite summer chores (second to picking tomatoes…they make me itchy!).
New flowers
These are the flowers that are now on our porch. I have two identical planters, one on the left, and one on the right.
The Bigger Picture
This is the bigger picture of what I see when I gaze off the porch. As many jokes as have been made about me hating trees, I really do enjoy this view of the woods (disguising the other apartment complex a couple hundred feet on the other side). And yes, the plant peed a little. Can’t take it anywhere without it having an accident…
So pretty!
What a beautiful view you have from your porch. Lucky you!
I love those planters – they’re so simple and pretty. And the flowers are gorgeous, of course.
April showers bring may flowers. But what do may flowers bring?
Pilgrims!
Love the flowers!
The flowers are beautiful. Be careful – they can’t take too much heat :)
I know the Lord said, Thou shall not kill. But I kill plants all the time. I’m horrible at keeping the poor things alive. I usually buy perennials so that they will keep coming back on their own, without much help from me at all.
Your planters are beautiful! I love the colors and the backdrop of the trees :)
Oh yay! They are so pretty! My problem I always had when I lived at my apartment is forgetting to water them… oops!!
They look very pretty Ronnica!