I have a few These petunias are in the really large pot I had out front last summer. Randy moved it out back before the first freeze so I could protect it. If anything, the cold weather has made it more than double in size. ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden ) The Pansies are hanging in there, the more neglected ones are hanging in there better than the ones I remember to water....go figure. ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden ) I have never grown Crocus before but I am getting several different colors so more photos will be posted as they open....if I catch them while they are open. Yellow just doesn't photograph easily. ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden ) This is a new February Cactus bloom I found the other day... ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden ) This is the bloom on one of the new Thrift plants I bought last weekend. Thrift bloom on new plant ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden )
I like your yellow Croci. I think my yellow ones went with a tree stump as it was ground up. :-( Same petunias? As last year? Protected from summer heat? When it gets hot here the petunias look like something the cat dragged in. Jerry
They really did pretty good through the heat last summer, I moved them to a place where they got sun from about 4 p.m. on so that helped. This is what that pot looked like last October when I stuck a small Chrysanthemum plant in with them. Petunia pot Oct 2010 ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden ) This is what it looks like today...the strappy leaves are some Iris that I forgot were planted in there when I put the petunias in last spring. After a winter outside, this is 2-8-12 ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden ) I don't know how many garden center employees have insisted that Petunias are annuals and will die off with the first freeze. This pot has been through a few nights of upper 20's this winter.
Hi Toni, lovely Petunias,..in particular the first,..and a beauty of a Pansy in the pot,..rich colours,..i noticed a pansy all on its own but doing quite well,..to save it being trodden on i took it home and gave it a good home,..it died,..perhaps it would still be surviving were i to have left it be.
I'm jealous of your February blooms! I have petunias that have survived the winter, but they are no where near blooming again.
Ive got pansies still blooming I love that red petunia, I planted some of those last summer (the red one) and they bloomed through fall, although the foliage looked horrible after our drought
nice blooms!! i know where your coming from jerry, last year at work we had a three tier'd tower of petunias and they had to be replaced at least 3 times. why they carried on buying them i don't know?? :-?
Wow. Summer in Texas now? All is white in my garden...if it goes on like these my helleborus and snowdrops will bloom under the snow
So pretty....I had petunias grow from seed they dropped when we had sandy soil and we get pretty cold weather but I have never had any plants make it through the winter....I think they last longer than most plants in our cold weather .
