Thanks Wine Commonsewer
So I’m checking out The Wine Commonsewer’s site and I find a pic of some beautiful flowers. Honestly, with the title “Red Hot Poker,” I thought I was going to check out a post about the latest in SWAT raids on poker rooms. I see instead this flower called red hot poker. It immediately makes me think of what my ex mother-in-law said to me on Mothers’ Day. (We’ve always been kind to each other, and in an effort to spare the kiddos BS fighting, we took an attempt to maintain peace to a friendship deep enough that she slept over for Mothers’ Day.) Anyway, J. and I were drinking wine and smoking a particularly aromatic tobacco outside when she told me that my pool area looked like shit. She suggested that I plant some flowers.
I asked TWC if he thought his featured flower would do well in the oppressive Dallas climate and he sent me some info. I went off to Calloway’s Nursery to buy the beautiful, yet hearty flowering plant. It is obviously popular; they were out of stock, so I purchased other pretty, yet hearty flowering plants.
I’ve never really been a flower gardener; I’ve never worked with color or oddly sized spaces. My gardening experiences are limited to huge fields of tomatoes and beans where, as a child, I learned responsibility. Flowers require a different sort of planting. It is almost art and I’m not much of an artist.
I did, today, learn some valuable lessons on the art of flower garden arrangements.
One: Aggregate keeps your feet cooler than concrete, but it will wreck your knees.
Two: Mexican bush sage is pretty, but almost as unforgiving as aggregate.
Three: No matter how neat you think you can be, don’t wear your Pumas to garden near the pool.
Four: Don’t think you are agile enough to climb onto the raised fountains without falling into the pool.
I was trying to get some hibiscus planted and fell, shoes and all, into the pool. I didn’t have a single drink- not one sip. My soaked ass was the only thing that kept the doc from blowing a complete gasket over my flower expenditure.
That brings us to learning point five:
It is cheaper, prettier, and less chaotic to have the lawn service plant the flowers.
Especially considering that this is my work in progress:
Wow that was really cool, that first pic…it made me feel like I was falling in to the pool! Did you intend to crop it that way for the visual effect?
Not at all. I just didn’t get them sized properly. LOL
Thanks for the shout out, much obliged. The new flowers look good. Gardens are always a work in progress. I am surprised that your climate is mild enough for hibiscus, which are pretty frost tender. I think it’s wine thirty, been a long day.
We don’t get too cold here, but truthfully, I bought them because I always liked them and they were in the “full sun” section.
And it is always wine thirty.