Sorry for the late start today, I battled a bout of food poisoning last night and this morning. I’ll spare you the details, but it wasn’t fun. Luckily, there were lots of wonderful carnival posts to brighten my spirits. You all covered such an interesting array of topics on how your container garden has fared this summer. Everything from the joy of seeing how a garden has progressed after a week-long vacation to a photographic tour of beautiful containers, some featuring stunning black petunias. Without further ado…
David Copperfield, Where Are You?
Nancy pleas for magical intervention as her containers are hit not just heat, not just humidity, but with rain as well. Though with all things considered, I think her containers look beautiful.
Summer in Southern California is all about the Water
Kathy is full of great ideas to help keep your container garden looking its best during the hot summer months. She’s got tips on everything from attracting hummingbirds to keeping your plants adequately watered.
Gardening Gone Wild
Normally, tales of “what my garden looked like while I was away on vacation” have sad endings. But not Liam’s! The time away allowed him to really appreciate how much growing his garden did while he was enjoying the good life. Loved his creative use of containers too!
What’s New in the Garden This Year? Everything!
Lidia takes readers on a photo tour of her balcony, giving each planting a “grade.” She shares useful tips about what she learned from her successes and mistakes. Plus you get to see a photo of her cute pooch Essie.
Summer Changes
Abigail chats with the ghosts of gardens past, present and future. Good luck at the lake house! It sounds like a fun adventure and an opportunity to try your hand at an in-ground vegetable garden!
Early Summer in the Garden
All of Melanie’s hard work overwintering her plants and sowing new ones from seed has paid off nicely. I love her idea to combine gazanias and marigolds. They look great together!
The Tomato Plant That Ate Fort Collins
Anne shares a behind-the-scenes story about a tomato plant that was originally planted to showcase home allotment bags for her online store, and has now grown into a behemoth.
In Flowers: Container Gardening
Laura takes readers on a wonderful photo tour of her beautiful container plantings. Black plant lovers, this is not a post to miss!
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This is a nice crop of posts Fern. I’m enjoying reading them.
I’m sorry to hear about the food poisoning. Feel better.
So fun to see everyone’s gardens. Thanks for mentioning me… and my co-gardener Essie
a great bunch of posts
Thanks for the mention! So sorry to hear about the food poisoning, ugh, that is never fun.
Enjoyed reading the posts and seeing everyone’s summer gardens. Lidia is really taking on a challenge, gardening on a balcony in the Windy City! Thanks for putting these together, Fern.