Contained

Having seen an example of a container with contrasting plants, I went to Knuppers to find likely victims for a similar experiment. I found three chocolate coleuses and some white impatiens that fit the bill. I also came across a pot on sale, probably due to having some chips in it. The pot looked passable to me, especially at the sale price, so this became the setting for the plants. The 3 coleus and two of the impatiens were wrestled into the pot and look decent. Hopefully they will fill out and look more like what I had envisioned at the start of this. As I was at the garden center anyway, I also picked up some little white flowers to go into the rose pot out on the fire pit deck. That poor rose looked awfully lonely all by itself so now it has some friends.

I put the leftover plants here and there in different garden beds. While I was planting the second one, the mosquitoes found me and rang the dinner bell. What an absolute misery these mosquitoes are! I have to slather myself in foul smelling repellant everyday I go out to tend the garden. Otherwise I get bitten mercilessly. Even when I'm repellant, they hover around me and whine by my ears, threatening to dive in anyway. I see no good reason for the existence of the mosquito, except to torture and sicken. They are evil.