Gardens in Planters

The first spring was strange for me. No perennials coming up...not even a bed to dig in . Jeff was a little more comfortable with this and brought home plenty of hardy annuals, sedums and forced bulbs to fill urns and planters. We stuffed the pots of perennials and lilies from my old place in the crevasses of our temporary rock pile and created an instant no dig garden. Jeff brought home two cracked concrete bird baths, drilled holes around the bottom of the bowls and we filled them with a variety of sedums and succulants. Almost anything that will hold soil can be used as a planter as long as the water can drain out slowly. Pansies and osteospurnum are hardy annuals with a great

range of color. After their peak we replant them in one- and two-gallon pots and group them together around urns, bigger pots or in bare corners of the garden. They will last all summer if you remember to water them!