It's here again! That fabulous time of year when the husband and I decide that we too can have beautiful waves of color surrounding our home! That wonderful enthusiasm has overtaken us! We think we can do it!!! We planted flowers!
And I'm giving them at least a 10 percent chance of living through June.
You see, we are not outdoor people. We like the idea of being outdoor people. We even manage to convince ourselves for a couple of weeks at the beginning of each summer that we are outdoor people. Beginning in early May, we watch tentatively as our neighbors hang overflowing baskets of blooms from the eaves. By Mid-May, we are observing carefully as they plant annuals in carefully tended beds. Over Memorial Day weekend, we feel the stirrings of the green-eyed monster when their ceramic pots come out to decorate the front porches and driveways. And every year, around the first of June, our excitement overtakes common sense and we head out to buy flowers.
I already feel the burning hot summer sun mocking me. My poor little flowers are not long for this world.
4 comments:
Ah, but hope springs eternal!
We so lead the same life. As usual I spent too much money yesterday at Home Depot buying flowers that I know will be dead by the 4th.
Good luck keeping them alive :-)
I am a total black thumb club member, too, though I have some hope for this year's first ever veg. garden, even though the seeds I started have died in the basement. Other things seem to be not only living, but growing outside. We'll see...
You sound just like me! Except I don't even try with flowers. Well, okay, I did try a few flowers this spring, but not out front for the whole world to see my failure. No, no, out back in the field where, you know, I had the husband till up a large, circular patch of ground so I could try growing . . . ahem . . . wild, meadow-like flowers. I currently have a couple of dead things, some non-blooming things, and lots and lots of weeds.
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