From my front steps

A friend of mine loaned me his digital camera to get some shots of food from the restaurant. Been also getting shots of my garden. These are from my front container garden. Several from the distressed plant rack while the plant whisper was visiting.

alstroemeria keeps blooming

This geranium looked pretty bad when pick it up at the distress plant rack. Plant Whisper worked her magic repotting and adding some coffee grounds. It's been beautiful every since. I think it like living near the time and sage.

pink gerainum

new blossom

Another distress plant rack find. Love the purple flowers. 

purple penta

penta close-up

Just got this from the chef at the restaurant, Red shiso. She told me that vietnamese use this with grilling beef. Here's a link I found about vietnamese herbs: http://vietworldkitchen.typepad.com/blog/vietnamese-herb-primer.html 

red shiso

The First Bloom

love the pink edges 

My mom, the plant whisperer, sprinkled geranium seeds that she got from my sister's house in my pots on the front steps close to a year and half ago. This is the first bloom. Almost looks like cherry blossoms.

For the Plant Whisperer

The Plant Whisper comes for a visit every year with Farmer Joe and they fiddle around in my non-tropical garden yard. One of her favorite things to do is to go to the garden center and look for at the distressed plants to nurse back to back to healthy state for my house. 

This year the racks were bare or with just really dead plants. You have be more than a plant whisperer for those kind of distressed plants.

Anyway, went over to the garden center a couple of weeks ago and the racks were full. Got an Alstroemeria [Peruvian Lily], 2 six-paks of New Guinea impatiens and 3 marigolds for $18. What a deal. The plant whisperer show me the way to bring them back to life.

So for all of you who read my blog and see the plant whisperer, please share these pictures with her [I think farmer Joe would like to see them, too.]. I'd really appreciate it. 

New Guinea Impatiens for my hanging basket and window box

Yellow blooms are coming in on the Alstroemeria

The geranium isn't from the distressed plant rack. From seeds, that PW planted last year

Last but not less petunia that self seeded from last year