City farmer in the country….

 

For Mother’s Day my brother built Mom a new bird house and Greg replaced my flower bed.

 

I wanted to immediately plant some beautiful flowers….but my brother, who has immense influence over me, mentioned what a great place the new bed would be to grow…tomatoes.  Not flowers, tomatoes.

So what do I do?

I plant tomatoes.  I bought two Better Boy plants and one heirloom called “Rutgers”.  I also picked up a yellow bell pepper plant, crookneck yellow squash and zucchini squash.  Not a flower one went into that bed.  I did manage to pick up a couple of flowers to replace pots that had gone by.

This is called a Lemon Zest petunia.  The name refers only to the color although I wish it referred to the scent also.

 

   

The bird house is a success and families are already moving in.  The old bird house (which still had babies in it) was moved to the tree you see in the back ground. The families were all reunited and life is good.

I am sure eventually some flowers will find their way into the new flower bed.  I can almost guarantee it. :)