Garden Pic Wednesday: White Mums & Dusty Miller
Today was mowing day. Also I had to pick up a bunch of clutter from a blustery thunderstorm a couple days ago. It kicked up a wind that pummeled the roof and sides of the house with green pine cones, like little missiles. Bang. Bang. Thud. Plus threw a bunch of dead branches on the ground. Another thunderstorm will arrive in about an hour. It might undo my clean-up! Today's Garden Pic is one from early spring this year, back when the chrysanthemums I have planted along the front walk under the kitchen bay window were blooming. I have multiple colors, but the white mini-mums next to the Dusty Miller was especially eye-catching. The two together have almost a Christmasy look. Here in Florida, mums can bloom twice a year. I cut them back short after they start turning brown in the summer heat and they come back from the root, then bloom again late in the fall. I'm thinking it will take a good fertilizing in late fall and early spring to get the best out of the...