Choice Morsels

Today's Garden Pic is a container of Caladiums with a Hosta & purple Shamrock & Ajuga in the foreground. That's two kinds of Caladium: the green & white one is called "Christmas." I forget what the red one was called, but I didn't expect any of the Christmas Caladium to winter over---but apparently a bulb did! (I found it when I was planting the red.)  The Hosta is front is a large type that wasn't doing well where it was and I moved it here, where, it's gradually been doing better and better.  I can see this area from my sliding glass door and have been trying to make it visually appearing. This one area is doing fairly well. It's sort of a work in progress. The area is under a Maple tree, so mixed sun and shade plus it's left more natural and wild with the ground thick with leaves and pine straw & mulch I throw back there. I just plant this and that back there in hopes stuff will take over.

Hope you had a Happy 4th! It finally is raining today after a week of heat. Today's Garden Pic is another Coneflower blooming out in the front bed by the mailbox. I raised a group of them from seed last fall & winter, then planted in the spring. This is one of them.