Flowers Update

Okay, these 3 weeks after planting, the flowers you saw in May are looking pretty ugly.  This is not a flower bed.  This is a flower hospital:


Lush is out of the question under my care, but the little purple things are looking really lame:


I better go buy, and ram into the ground, something to step this up a notch or twenty-seven.

And those hanging baskets which were my favorites?  If you've been hanging around for a while, you know I'm not keen on the purple-red blend thing, but I didn't even notice purple and red were married in the baskets...until all the yellows in one of them shriveled up and died:


Really, do I get blamed for this?  I think not.  But there we have it.

Then there's the bed near the trough thingy, where I planted the strawberries...which got croaked, of course.  Who knew the wind had blown off the cover, knocked down the chicken barrier, and provided a feast for the chickens, who are not satisfied to gingerly pluck berries and must obliterate the plants as well?  So we planted perennials yesterday, a portion of which I managed to get in the photo frame.  They're looking pretty lame too.  This is prettyNot:


Sorta looks like a vegetable garden gone bad.  Mayhap I should just cease this annual debacle and resulting whine.  ºÜº

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.  Matthew 7:13, 14