Flower mania!

So, it seems that I keep finding spots in my yard that I want to destroy and start over. This week, I took a 5x10 plot of sparse grass, ants and gnarly roots and uprooted it all. It has a fence to the east behind it, a shed to the north, a gigantic oleander bush on the south and my arbor on the west. Along the shed I put three trellises, with two confederate jasmine and a purple passion flower. The west has a newly built border of Indian hawthorn and butterfly weeds. The hawthorn is still small so it is not much of a border. The oleander is about 15 feet tall, pink and white, and will shade the area more as the sun moves further south.

So anyways, I took some packets of flower seeds and just randomly started to plant them. I tried to pay attention to which needed lots of room (since apparently I did not leave enough room for my cucumbers and green beans and now the are crowding what is around them, lesson learned). Here are the flowers I planted:

Alyssum

Snap dragon, though mine are lavender colored too

zinnia

 borage

candy tuft

marvel of peru

yeti

court jester marigold

So that is a lot of flowers in one area! I can't wait to see how they fair. If only half come up I will be happy. I just can't get enough flowers :)

Summer is creeping in

So I went outside today, and I noticed something- the humidity is creeping back into our weather! Don't get me wrong, it still isn't hot yet, but man oh man am I starting to sweat! Guess planting season is pretty much over here in the sunshine state. Just waiting to harvest what I planted months ago.

Speaking of, here are some more updated pictures:

This is the first bed. Clockwise back left- corn, cucumber, stevia, dill, lavender and basil.

This is the second bed. From far left- tomato, lavender, basil, various kinds of peppers, carrots, rosemary, oregano, and green beans.

Close up of the baby tomatoes

Close up of the green beans

Cucumber flower

tomato cage

Carrots

peppers

blueberry bush

Can someone please tell me what this is? It cropped up where I planted nothing, and it looks like nothing else I have. It wants to wraps it's little vine on things...

purple passion flower

bird of paradise

I got these at a local gardening fair. They can each hold six potted plants. What a great way to decorate my entrance way!

That's all for now. I will write about my new flower bed after Indiana goes to bed tonight.