Taste Of Summer - Part One

We finally had a decent day here in the "Michiana" area. The timing was perfect since I went and bought flowers to plant in our yard, and that is always a more fun time when the sun is out and it is warm. I'm always excited to get the flowers and see all the fresh life and beauty. I also am grateful to God for creating perennial flowers. It's fun to have these wonderful plants come up year after year. One of my favorites is the bleeding heart. They bloom early and get you ready for summer. They don't last very long, but they are hardy plants. The ones in this picture came up after I had dug up the plants and moved them to a different spot.

Usually I buy geraniums for my whiskey barrel, but this year I saw these great gerbera daisies and I loved the colors.

I bought this "hen and chicks" plant. Supposedly, it will produce a lot of offshoots. I just thought it looked cool!

One day a few years ago, I was at my sister Chris' house, and she had a plant she wanted to give me. So she went into a random shed on their farm and came out with this cast iron pot. She transplanted the flower into and sent it home with me. This pot always reminds me of that day, and how cool it was to have a random shed to pull a unique pot out of, and how sweet it was that my sister did it for me.

I also opted for zinnias around our lamp post, instead of my standard petunias.