Flowers - 2

It's been a little over a week since my last update. Living in Colorado, I knew it was inevitable but I was hoping this year would skip it anyways.

It snowed. First it got cold. Then it rained. Then it freakin' snowed. None of my plants were killed because we got them all inside when we noticed it getting a bit cooler than normal out... but I can't say they particularly enjoyed being on my kitchen table or in my window either :p

Todays' been the first nice day since the last time I took pictures so, naturally, I had to take pictures! First up are my flowers.

First up are my Sweet Pea flowers. I can't wait to see these beauties grow big and tall! They are doing really well and are fun to watch grow. There is one, it has no leaves and is just growing super tall. You can see it in the back. I also snuck in a seed or two of columbines so it will be fun to see if we get anything from that. I think this is just going to have to be our experimental flower pot haha 

Next up are my Dianthus! 

In my last post, I talked about how this flower pot was mostly my daughter's (she's four) and the seeds didn't get put in any special order, though we tried. This one mostly has the larger flowers and you'll see some smaller ones snuck throughout which are the third type of flower we put in the pot. They are almost like mini versions of the larger Dianthus :p

I'm sure this year, we planted the flowers way to close together and they are obviously mixed throughout but I think when they bloom we will have some truly gorgeous images to share!!! And hopefully we'll find out if we were right about what the smaller flower sprouts are. My guess is Zinnias but we will have to find out eventually! 

My next flower update will also include (hopefully) pictures of the flower pot I got started today which has our Columbines in it! 

Flowers

Last year, I didn't really grow any flowers. I had a pot of geraniums that I had bought to keep mosquitos away, but other than that... flowers seemed like a waste of my time. That was a bit foolish of me! Particularly since I wasn't growing a large garden! I kept noticing that my strawberries would get flowers and the flowers would die, producing no fruit.

I looked up what could be causing it, learned about hand pollinating fixing the issue and started getting some strawberries... but I figure that having more flowers on the porch may make it a little easier on me ;) So, this year I'm growing several different varieties of flowers!

Pollination isn't the only thing I'm hoping these little flowers will do. My daughter (4) has been compeltely thrilled going out and watching the garden every day and seeing if anything new has come up. Oh, her excitement when the flowers first sprouted! Above, is I believe a Sweet Pea. We planted two different colors of them and they took nearly twice as long to sprout as the other two varieties of flowers we planted so we were very happy when we finally saw them sticking up out of the ground. - This picture was taken roughly 2.5 weeks after we first planted the seeds. 

This next picture shows the other two varieties, one of which I'm not entirely sure what it is because I lost the baggie of seeds... but I'm sure they'll be beautiful whatever they are :p 

I know that the smaller sprouts are Dianthus and I am pretty sure the larger sprouts are a type of Zinnia. Hopefully I find the bag and can confirm. Otherwise, we'll just wait till the grow into flowers and find out then!

When we originally positioned the flowers, the Sweet Peas were to be in the middle, as they would get the largest, then what I think are Zinnias would be around them ending with Dianthuas as they would be the smallest. Since my four year old was helping plant, they didn't get as perfectly situated as one might hope but I think all the colors and the final look will still be beautiful and I know my little girl will be super proud of herself because she's put a lot of work and time into growing these already!