This morning I cleaned out my gardening containers and found several plants that are re-appearing after a winter dormancy. Lovely, long-lived plants for containers!
Yesterday, Sidney and I purchased several vegetable and herb plant starts from a local gardening nursery and today I spent the entire morning cleaning out my containers in preparation for planting a few of the herbs out.
I already knew one of my containers had reseeded pansies in it because they bloomed out several weeks ago. Last year it was a mixed planter with asparagus fern, vinca and pansies but this year in late winter it was filled to overflowing with creamy yellow pansies edged in violet! What unexpected charm!
When I cleaned out the old asparagus fern stems this morning I noticed that several of the pansies had already gone to seed ensuring another lovely crop of flowers this fall and early next spring since pansies are cool weather flowers.
My chocolate mint and peppermint survived another winter so I cleaned the weeds out of their container and added an extra layer of mulch and organic soil ammendment since this will be their third year in that pot.
The burgundy dianthus is coming back again, as is my trailing rosemary and lavender plants so I should have plenty of summer flowers and aromatic herbs to get my container garden off to a good start this year.
