Red......and More Red.

 

The hardy geraniums are budded but are still slow to bloom.  I guess they are getting use to being in the pot and they are spreading their toots first.

 

 

The petunia is one with a powerful red color.  It is looking good but I just remembered that I need to water them. Our soil is so dry and you have to dig down 8 inches to find moisture. 

 

The "William Baffin" rose is looking good but it is reaching the stage when the first few percent of blooms are failing. I had to look hard to find a bunch that looked this good.  I think I will give it some water as it really has hundreds of blooms on it and it is large.

 

 

I spent the morning transplanting zinna starts to different blank rows.  I had some really thick areas planted and instead of pinching them back I moved the crowded plants into different rows and create whole new rows.  I lose a few plants while doing that but if I can get eighty percent of them to grow I feel successful.  We slowly warmed up today but it was good to be outside.  The neighbor kids of three from one house and a set of twin nighbor girls all congregated on the neighbors deck.  The lab dog was on the deck also and the dad was busy working on attaching a new tarp on the deck roof.  It was a lot of noise between the kids yelling and banging things and dad yelling at them.  I couldn't see them but it made an interesting experience while on the ground moving zinnia plants.  I really kind of enjoyed it and was amazed at the dad's patience of what those five were doing to him with their rowdiness.  

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