Vintage Watering Can

Good morning friends. 

What do you do when you come across a vintage watering can with the bottom rusted out?

  You plant one of your favorite flowers in it.

The flower is Blue Daze (evolvulus) and is a perennial here in zone 8. It is a member of the morning glory family.  Besides it's lovely blue flowers it also has wonderful grey green foliage.

It is sold here as an annual though.

I hope this Tuesday finds all of you well and happy. 

I will be catching up on your posts and news today.

 This weekend Joe and I trimmed shrubbery, roses, and perennials for hour and hours until we were bone tired. Forty five plus days of rain had the property looking most jungle like. 

Much is left to do but I am having a pajama day today.

Our front stoop is a stellar example of excellent over growth of plants.

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Olive

Flower Garden After Rain Rain Rain

Tiger Lily 

The beauty of this bulb with it's brown freckles amazes me. 

You can plant the little black bublets on it's stem and have more of these next year.

Oak Leaf Hydrangea

I love that it fades to pink.

Nikko Blue Hydrangea

It is fading to a light purple. I have been trying to dry these without success.

 Maybe they are waterlogged this year. Normally I dry bucks of them.

The flower garden proper is overgrown and filled with weeds.

 I pulled weeds for two hours Monday. I can hardly tell. It is disheartening.

Montbretia

I tied it to this wrought iron post and I am liking this look. 

The Talented B gave me the wrought iron post and idea. She is a smart gal.

You can see my Beautiful Weed post about this plant here.

The grass certainly has enjoyed the continuous daily rain for 45 day in a row.

The night our gravel road washed away we had ten inches of rain in four hours. I do not fertilize our grass or fuss over it in any way. We have a huge amount of grass so I merely mow it.  

Can you see the enormous Spider Plant on the right? 

I dug it out of my sister's neighbor's trash. My sister was a little bit alarmed but got over it.

The plant looked rough but has recovered splendidly.

It is thundering now-more rain!

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Olive