We visited two of our favourite green houses...Mr. Seventies picked out six new perennial plants at the first one...and we purchased our annuals at the second one..begonias, pansies, petunias to name a few.
Yesterday afternoon, before hubby's Father's Day bar-b-que...we got busy filling our planters...
Please excuse the condition of the steps & decks...but we are holding off re-staining until the pool company comes to repair the pool!! No sense in having them track across freshly stained areas...especially since we are uncertain how much disruption the repairs will be to the decks.
Liesel's ramp(s) (there is one off the pool deck as well) need to be restained. I'm thinking I'll purchase a new outdoor rug...the current one is getting a bit worn around the edges. I'm on the fence about new chair cushions...they add a pop of colour..and are comfy...but such a pain as they need to be taken in at night. Heavy dew or rain will soak them...so they are annoying to have to deal with. I could purchase a deck box to store them in...but we already have two large deck boxes on the pool deck for the pool vacuum and pool chemicals. Going to mull it over a while longer.....
We discovered when we cranked up the umbrella...it was broken! Apparently a gust of wind caught it one afternoon...and tore it from the base (it obviously was not secured in)....and tossed it off the deck. Mr. Seventies tried without success to repair it...so we chalked it up to lesson learned and ordered a new one...will pick it up hopefully later today. It is on sale $10. cheaper...so there is that.
Loving my little planter with the cute water tap...once the pansies fill in..it will be adorable. All the planters required holes to be drilled in the bottoms for drainage.
My cute little stand is filling up with flowers...
Mr. Seventies picked up a flat of Salvia..these were my Mom's favourite annual flowers! My Dad always planted them for her...and we planted these at the front walkway...nice to have a pop of red!
Liesel has a spa-di-cure appointment today and Mr. Seventies wants a few more annuals for the front gardens...so I see another trip for flowers in the works. It's overcast and rain in the forecast..so no outside work will get done today.
We are getting price quotes to have the driveway resurfaced this summer. It needs to be levelled and a couple of layers of new asphalt laid. When the city installed new drainage pipes...they tore up the end of our drive (the city owns the first so many feet)...and they did a terrible pave patch job! We now have an incline at the end...when it should be flat. The paving company will level everything out and that will take care of that.
Hope you are having an awesome day wherever you are!!
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