Garden Pic Wednesday: Blooming Ground Covers!
This morning I was out picking beans. They get ahead fast. Also watered all the veggies, hydrangeas, blackberries and daylilies with some Miracle-gro. I enjoyed a fresh cucumber on my sandwich for lunch. They're a container breed that makes 4 to 6 inch cuc's, so they're ready quick. Fresh cucumbers taste so crisp and light and full of water, like watermelon. No comparison to store bought! Lots of Butternut squash, purple peppers and zucchini as well! Today's Garden Pics features 2 blooming ground covers I have out front my the mail box: Creeping Basil and Creeping Thyme. They've expanded much since last fall and they plus the Golden Creeping Jenny are there to cover the whole surface of where they are. Creeping Basil I didn't know there was such a thing. It was a door prize I won at a event at the library sponsored by a local Garden Club last fall. Since then it's expanded to about a 30 inch circle. The leaves lay very low to the ground and...