Then in November 2010 we hosted a 30th birthday party for the man who eventually became our son in law. That meant a bit of a spruce up of both the house and the garden. So in Spring that year, I potted up flowering annuals in the September school holidays so they were ready to put around the garden by early November. It was still drought so it was all hand watering. But the pots of petunias looked good on the night. The drought broke here with the floods of January 2011 and gradually we could use mains water for gardening again. But my potted colour efforts were pretty hit and miss until this year. Having our Canadian friends visit on Easter Sunday spurred me on...after all potted colour distracts attention from a lot of things!! Lol.
Petunias...new varieties jostle with old favourites!
I love bromeliads too and I brought up some extra ones from the shaded area in the garden and put them on the veranda...
The ones near the front steps are untouched...this is possibly because the sensor light would come on when the possums approach...
On the bright side, the constant 'trimming' should mean the plants get more 'bushy'? Lol. At least the possums are not eating the plants down to ground level like they do with my parsley.
Maria, we have never had the possums eat petunia flowers here and I am not sure what they actually do eat although I do see some fallen fruit in the cherimoya tree next to the house which they probably climb up to dance on the roof in the middle of the night. I normally have a pot of petunias near the front of the house where there aren't any trees so they probably leave them alone as they must find plenty of fruit around to eat instead. I hope you get lots of petunia flowers after the 'pruning'. We have heaps of broms too as my hubby collects them.
ReplyDeleteso colourful. I do not do annuals ether very neglectful in my garden these days and own up to never watering, grass gets a bit brown at times but comes back, these days we have so much rain it is mostly moss
ReplyDeleteI certainly get the'spruce it up for visitors' thing...but we don't have too many annuals. I do miss them though.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty! I have some new petunias this year, too, bi-colored ones, and I really love them. We have to keep the flowers we don't want the deer to eat up on the deck. The squirrels still dig in the pots and break off the plants and flowers, though. No possums, though!
ReplyDeleteOh yes and roses. They love roses. And then the rabbits come and do everything the possums leave behind. It's a constant battle.
ReplyDeleteBut yours are looking very pretty.