Yesterday my husband Wade and son Alex helped me get the garden bed out front and the autumn planting done. Phew it was a lot to do. Wade built a new block retainer curb for the bed since the old wooden one had rotted and was crumbling.
Here in Houston, gardening is tough. Back home in Michigan and Illinois, I had gorgeous perennial beds and window boxes, rose gardens and vegetables too. But the weather in Houston makes it next to impossible to have a garden that grows anything. It gets too hot in the spring for plants to germinate fruits like tomatoes and then the birds eat whatever actually does make it. Flowers just croak.
Over the years I have pivoted to pots. I fill them with annuals and they usually make it a month or two. Then pull them out and restock.
I’m always adding ceramic planters to my garden. In recent years, they are one’s I make. This season I brought in a ceramic table to give some height to the pots. I love it!
