Flower update

Brian has been watering the flowers in the front yard faithfully to make them grow, so I thought I'd share some pictures of his success with you. On either side of the front door, Brian planted some flower boxes with various seeds. It took us a while to ID some of the plants because they grew crazy long stems before blooming, but we now know that some of them are marigolds. In this picture, you can see one of the marigold stems hanging down below the box with a nice orange bloom on the end. There is a close-up of the flower below.

The flower box on the other side of the door has flower stems growing in a similar manner. Most of these plants seem to be zinnias. We also have some zinnias planted in the yard.

Our lantanas are also looking really good right now. They are blooming like crazy, which attracts many butterflies to the yard. This is especially nice in the morning--it is relaxing to be greeted by butterflies on your way to work.

More buds!

Finally, I wanted to post an update on the snapdragons we planted after Fay to replace the marigolds. The snapdragons all had lovely flowers on them when we planted them, but after planting, all the flowers shriveled up and dropped off (despite daily watering). I think they were just protesting their replanting. Anyway, they are finally starting to bud again, and the first flowers are coming out--pink.

The bush we planted at the same time is also growing well, as seen below. It's flowers did not fall off.