The first Spring planting I did this year was potting up petunia seedlings. After a very dry Winter, which parched plants and made the grass all brown and crunchy, I wanted some brilliant colour for the start of Spring. The lovely Stephenie, over at The Awakened Soul, wrote about the pretty pansies she has planted in her window boxes and how they bring cheerfulness to her little pink cottage. Petunias, with their vibrant, multi-coloured blooms can bring that kind of happiness too ...
My all-pink petunia pot.
Random, multi-coloured happiness!
Such amazing variety ...
... and gorgeous colours!
White pentunia and blue lobelia.
Sunlight on a pure white petunia.
A pot of colour outside my kitchen window.
Petunias are pretty, easy-to-grow flowers. I potted up some small seedlings from the nursery in a good quality potting mix, watered them in with a seaweed solution and now only water them if I feel the potting mix is getting a bit dry. I remove their spent flower heads as they finish to encourage even more flowers.
While I do not have window boxes, I have put a couple of my petunia pots on the verandah outside my kitchen windows. I love looking out upon these pretty flowers while I'm doing the washing up! I smile every time I see them. 😃
What are you growing right now that brings you a smile?
Meg
Very pretty and healthy! I love the sweet smell of petunias! Andrea
ReplyDeleteI find that watering them in with seaweed solution really gets the plants of to a great start, Andrea. I hope they'll keep on blooming all through Spring. Meg:)
DeleteIt's heading to winter here, I've not as yet planted pansies, my dahlias are full of blooms, and begonias are still looking good. Give a couple of weeks when the temp drops and plants will fade, I'm hoping the frost stays away
ReplyDeleteDahlias are so very beautiful, Marlene. How lovely that you grow them in your garden. Meg:)
DeleteHi Meg,
ReplyDeleteI planted a heap of parsley seeds that I had collected last season about 2 months ago, I now have a wonderful abundance of parsley ready for picking. I planted these in my veggie pod and it’s going gang busters. I love your pretty coloured flowers, such bright colours. Fi
I'm sure you'll make good use of your parsley, Fi. I have some that has self seeded up around my wicking barrels and it's always lovely to go and pick a bunch to add to a meal. Meg:)
DeleteHi Meg, Your petunias are so bright and colorful. How exciting. I love the miniature trailing ones, too. As I was reading your post, I thought, "Oh, she knows someone who spells their name the same way that I do." Then I realized it was me. Thank you for the mention. We are gardening at opposite times of the year, but we plant a lot of the same flowers. Happy gardening...
ReplyDeleteI think we both love flowers! They really do brighten up the world, our homes and our gardens. I'm always interested to see what other gardeners grow; what plants are the same and which ones are different. Your little pink cottage looks a most lovely little place to live. I can just imagine how pretty those pansies in their window boxes are! Meg xx
DeleteMeg, I don't have petunias growing this year but have a pot of beautiful mauve pansies which I just love. As it is so dry the garden has been looking a bit bare although we do have huge clumps of cliveas that have just finished flowering.
ReplyDeleteYour mauve pansies sound lovely, Chel. My cliveas haven't flowered yet but hippeastrums are forming their buds so I'm looking forward to that. I hope you get some rain up on the range soon! Meg:)
DeleteYour petunias are lovely and look so healthy. My Wonga Wonga vine makes me happy. It is the first of my flowering bushes to bloom at the beginning of September and it is absolutely covered with cream coloured, bell shaped flowers and it smells divine, the bees go crazy for it.
ReplyDeleteThat vine sounds gorgeous, Jan. It's wonderful the scents that some flowers have. Meg:)
DeleteYour pots of petunias are so pretty and colorful! I have some roses blooming outside my front door which bring a smile to me. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely welcome roses at the front door would be, Bless. That would bring me many smiles too. Meg:)
DeleteSo purdy. I love having sweet things to spot, from the kitchen window too. It makes looking out the window, that much more enjoyable. :)
ReplyDeleteIt sure brightens up the verandah and gives me something pretty to look at while I"m washing up! Meg:)
DeleteHa! Yes, we have a window sink as well. I have a bird bath (not too close to the house) so I can see which birds and kangaroos are visiting. There's not reason to work without a good view, lol.
DeleteYour petunias look so lovely and healthy! I especially like the last picture, with the pinwheel-looking flower, and the blueish ones!
ReplyDeleteIt's fall here, and a lot of people have pots of mums (someone in my town planted a bunch alongside their driveway, and it looks really nice). I have bad luck with those things; they always seem to get scraggly and ugly within a week or two. My mom has the same problem; maybe it's genetic! :)
I think the pinwheel ones are quite lovely too, Stephanie. Sometimes the pinwheel stripes will look purple and other times more pinkish depending on the light. Perhaps, if you have trouble growing mums, you might want to try petunias. Meg ☺
DeleteI love to have petunias in spring and summer, we’ve just started getting our little patch ready for autumn, finding my bright splashes of colour from the cyclamen xx
ReplyDeleteCyclamen sound lovely for Autumn colour, Cheryl. I sometimes buy a pot of cyclamen at Easter, as a gift for my mother-in-law, as that falls during our Autumn. Meg ☺
DeleteWe plant for year round colour so there is always something pretty to look at in my garden. I currently have snow white cosmos, peachy pink penstemons, a few snapdragons and some jewel coloured gladioli spikes adding beautiful bright colour. I plan to put a load more in the border next year.
ReplyDeleteYour garden sounds beautiful, Cherie. It sounds so colourful! Meg ☺
DeleteThey are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI only have purple Mexican petunias and they are very easy to grow.
I also have pink four o' clocks blooming for the first time. 😊
I find petunias are very easy to grow where I live too, Nil. They don't mind hot weather! Pink four o'clocks sound lovely. Meg:)
DeleteIn all these years I've never grown petunias, but only this week a friend told me that they are a flower that loves the sun, and I do have a spot where I need something bright and sun-loving. Your pictures and praise are confirmation: I will plant them next spring!
ReplyDeleteI have found that petunias love the sun too, Gretchen Joanna. Our Spring and Summer months can get very hot and petunias just seem to keep on blooming. I hope, when you plant them, that you find they do well where you live too. Meg:)
DeleteVery pretty pots of colour and I love the strawberry doily.
ReplyDeleteSpring is off to a lovely start, Kathy. Hasn't the rain the past couple of days been wonderful! Meg:)
DeleteOhh Meg, I am very envious indeed of your glorious petunias. We have planted zero this spring...
ReplyDeleteYour displays are a treat for the eyes.
My mum has petunias and renunculus and they always look so pretty.
Take care Meg
Cheers
Jane.
Have you had any rain at all yet, Jane? It's so hard to find the enthusiasm to plant without reliable water/rain. My Mum, who lives in the Far North, is struggling to keep her plants alive as they've not had much rain at all and she is finding that so disheartening because she usually derives so much joy from her garden. These pots of petunias were the first thing I planted this Spring because I really needed some colour after the brown tinge of our dry Winter this year. Take Care too, Jane. MegXx
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