From the Garden and into the Garden

This past month has given me numerous opportunities to quickly put together

a bouquet from the garden.

I wish it were always so easy!

 But maybe that is the joy of this short season . . .

beauty in the blooms that appear almost as though to tease us.

It's around this time that I head to the nursery and fill my trunk with

those that will last all summer long.

The old pots come out of the shed and get a good scrub.

I remove old roots and turn over the soil, adding some new potting soil.

I line up the purchased little plants and stuffers alongside the pots

they should go in.

and then simply scoop out a place for each plant and tuck them in.

They get some fertilizer with their first watering and

then I anticipate the joy of blooms taking us right into Fall.

But let's  not go there yet.