A Rustic Garden Blog

This is the best time to shop for beautiful flowers for your garden planters.  I prefer colorful foliages as well as flowering annuals.  I really crowd the flowers in my containers but always add time released fertilizer when planting and will add a mixture of  fertilizer and water every couple weeks.

My circa 1848 home in Illinois has several antique cast iron urns that accent my flower beds year round but of course this is the very best time of year when everything is coming to life and my urn planters are overflowing with color.