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In my last post, I shared how I decorated my Front Porch in a red, yellow and orange color theme for Summer...
And also how I used faux flowers in my pots on the Front Porch....
Click HERE if you missed that post!!
And now for a few Personal Notes...
Yesterday, the Community Group that I belong to at my church, Saint Maria Goretti, hosted a Breakfast after the 9 am Mass...
I bought red, white and blue tablecloths because of Memorial Day...
My friend Joanne....
We served water, juice, coffee, tea and hot cocoa....
Kolachi and coconot bars came from a local bakery,
Bakery Delite, whose owners belong to our Parish...
My friend Joanne bought the cookies...
You can see that I also brought in a Patriotic firecracker to use as a centerpiece...
Cinnamon bars and assorted bagels also came from Bakery Delite....
Crafts for the children....
We had a nice turn out....
About 50 people....
It was nice spending time with some old and some new friends....
After I left the church, I drove to a local Garden Center,
O'Malia' s Greenhouses, and bought the annuals for the front yard....
One tray for $22.13!!
I did pick out a few for the back yard too.....
In my last post, I debated about getting annuals as we are going to be below average in our temps...
But since I do not see any 30's for low temps in the mornings, I thought I should go for it...
I used all faux flowers on the Front Porch so I only needed annuals for the pots in the front flower beds...
We will start with the flower bed under the Living Room window....
With new sidewalks put in by our HOA, replacing the crumbling ones, I am finally able to have a nice straight border in this flower bed....
And I really like how it now looks....
On the left side...
Under the faux mailbox, which I use to store garden tools in, on the side of the porch.....
I planted 4 coleus in this long rectangular planter.....
I plant this amount in here every year and they fill in spectacularly.....
Plus, they usually hold up through out the Fall....
I set a bowl from a bird bath on top of my rusty Angel bird bath....
The stepping stone in the flower bed says " Angels Gather Here"...
I transplanted hostas that I thinned out from my neighbor's yard in these larger pots....
My Shabby Chic chippy Angel that I bought in Target about 20 years ago...
My Amish Buggy Wheel with a wooden star , made by the Amish Farmer, against the house, under the window...
The right side.....
Two large light bulb like solar lights that my late husband Joe bought in Big Lot's at 90% off......
On the retaining wall between my townhouse and my next door neighbor's.....
You can see the trough I made last year for the water coming out of the gutter so it does not flood the entire flower bed....
I planted 3 different kinds of marigolds in the 2 small square pots....
A flower pot placed on top of the bird bath base that came with the glass bowl that I placed on the rusty Angel....
I planted 3 red impatiens in this pot.....
Again, 3 different kinds of marigolds...
I transplanted this Rose of Sharon slip in this pot from another one and I am still waiting to see if it takes....
As the coleus start to grow, I will propagate some into this pot...
The flower bed on top of the slope that runs in front of my row of townhouses......
The azaleas are done blooming as most of their blooms were unfortunately knocked off by the rain and the wind....
But my Rhododendron is almost in full bloom.....
Looks like more buds are ready to bloom....
I have neighbors coming over to take pictures of it!!!
It is getting a bit too big so I will be trimming it back after it is finished blooming...
3 different marigolds also planted in the pot behind the deer....
Joe also bought this mini flag on Clearance in Big Lot's....
"The Love of Family makes Life Beautiful"
2 red impatiens planted in this red vintage watering can...
My lamp post and park bench....
Bows that match the ones on the Front Porch are attached to each side of the top of the lamp post.....
Paying homage to Joe's love of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Penguins......
3 red begonias planted in this pot....
And 3 marigolds in this pot....
My son Joey had gifted Joe the paver and garden stone for Father's day in the past...
2 Dollar Tree spotlights illuminate the area in the evening...
I do need to trim back that forsythia.....
The statue was my late neighbor Elly's and the wind chime has red cardinals on it that says "When red Cardinals appear, Angels are near".......
I bought that 6 years ago when my nephew John passed away from colon cancer...
3 red impatiens in this pot....
One of my neighbors gifted me this owl which is one of a set of 3!!
Another mini flag....
" Friends Make Life a Little Sweeter"
Same thing as before with the marigolds in this pot in the red truck....
2 impatiens in this pot....
I watered all the pots with a healthy dose of Miracle Gro and we will see how they do....
I like that I can move the pots around to different places if I choose....
These are the flowers that I have left to plant out in the back yard....
I love the pink on these 2 coleus plants....
One red begonia and 3 marigolds left with a full flat of impatiens and 2 extra ones not used in the front yard...
Since I have also "planted" faux flowers in almost all of the pots out on the back Patio, I am challenging myself to only buy this one tray of annuals this year....
I will also be trying to grow some from seeds and propagate some coleus like I did last year....
Now I want to share a few pictures of how my Slope looks now....
You may remember how it looked a few weeks ago with the phlox in bloom....
Well, the phlox only bloom for about 2 weeks but this year, it was a shorter time because of all the rain we have been getting....
The slope in front of my townhouse has filled up with phlox, sedum and columbine and bonfire spurge that keep reseeding themselves...
There is also a morning glory like vine that I can not kill for the life of me that blew over from a neighbor's yard and it is a pain in the butt as it is invasive....
Anyone have any suggestions on how to get rid of it????
I have tried weed killers to no avail....
A new flag hangs in front of my park bench.....
You can see how much my next door neighbor's side of the slope has filled in with the growth of the hostas, bonfire spurge and lamb's ear.....
So much so that I have decided to table having my landscaper friend put mulch on the slope until late Fall when everything starts to die out for the Winter as right now, there is hardly any space to put the mulch now!!!
I am going to buy several bags of mulch that I will put around in my flower beds on top of the slope and my next door neighbor's...
I will have my son Jim or my next door neighbor Mo bring them up the steps for me because the days of me doing that myself are done!!
I hope you enjoyed seeing my little experiment of using faux flowers with annuals in the front of my house to cut down on watering along with the price of watering and having to buy a lot of annuals year after year...
I used to spend anywhere from $150 to $200 a Summer on Annuals each year...
I will keep you posted if my challenge to myself to only buy one tray of flowers for $22.13 for the entire Season works!
I hope you will stop by to visit again for my next post on THURSDAY!!
Stay safe, healthy and most of all, HAPPY!!
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