"planting your dreams, watching them grow..."

when i was a working teen i had a great job at Wasatch Shadows plant nursery in Holladay. i loved that job - disliked my dufus of a boss - but loved working around trees, shrubs, flowers, ground covers, perennials, annuals, etc., etc. it was a great job because i was working outside! and when i was helping customers it was because they wanted to buy some plants and they were usually in a chipper mood.

another great thing about that job was that i learned a lot about all kinds of plants. of course i haven't retained all of it but i do remember quite a bit and it has served me well. for example, last week i decided it was time to make some improvements to our front porch area. as you can see it leaves much to me desired.


so i dug up several square feet of encroaching grass and 50 or so rocks that were embedded in the ground. (i think someone had made a path at one point with all those rocks but it was so many rocks. there was even a place where someone buried? their cool rock collection. neat rocks but a pain in neck to dig out.) then using a few of the best rocks from the pile and some other paving stones that were lying around in the back yard, i made a new boundary for the flower bed. and once that was done the fun began... time to pick out plants!

lavender, shasta daisies, salvia, coreopsis, catmint, osteospermum: flowering perennials! visiting the nursery was so much fun. the only let down was that i couldn't find any English daisies. oh, well. perhaps later. i don't think i'm overstepping by saying this is a huge improvement.


now i like to go sit on the porch and just look at the flowers. all i need a cool glass of limeade.