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I don’t have any roses and am not a very good gardener at all. But I usually do ok with having some flowers and plants in pots around the house. My kids gave me some urns one year for Mother’s day and I had trouble keeping things alive in them because I think the concrete got too hot during our 100 degree summer days. Plus they stay on a covered porch and don’t get sun so I had to experiment with something that did well in the shade. A few years ago I finally figured out to plant the flowers in a pot that I could drop down into the urns, duh! So if I remember to water them often enough, I’ve had pretty good luck with these begonias that are a shade annual. I bought these over the weekend and got them potted yesterday; hope they’ll make it through our long summer. Now I’ve got to go buy the ferns that I usually plant in big containers to go alongside these!
May 1st, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Nice urns!!
May 1st, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Those look great, and I REALLY need to start going to get summer flowers. We’ve been so busy that I haven’t had much time. Your begonias look great 🙂
May 1st, 2007 at 9:10 pm
They are beautiful and will add sunshine on a cloudy day. Keep them watered or they will wilt… but they make a great come back once they get the water. Great idea to put a pot in the urn, I usually keep an extra and just rotate them to keep them looking nice. Sounds like you have more of a green thumb than you thought! Enjoy, they should bless you all summer.
May 2nd, 2007 at 6:04 am
My dad has those urns and I’ve always loved them. The begonias look nice in them. They’re such an easy flower to grow.
May 2nd, 2007 at 6:48 am
It’s nice to know that I’m not the only one lacking a green-thumb. I love flowers, but just don’t do a real good job at the whole keeping them alive part.
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Those urns are just beautiful. I just bought some, but took them back because they were totally the wrong color when I got them home. I ended up just using two pots I already had–and will just wait til next year. I know those begonias will just be lovely all summer long!
May 2nd, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Pretty! I planted some impatiens and new-to-me flower called clown’s faces just last week, in, what I thought, was a party shaded area. Oops, maybe not shaded enough. My clown’s faces are DEAD!!
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Wow beautiful….