Mama Kat Thursday: Spring In My Neck of the Woods
In Florida, Spring starts "springing" around the first of March, though the Azalea's are already done and everything else is still prepping to bloom. So for Mama Kat today, we have a brief tour of what's Springing in my neck of the woods: Piles of Pink Shamrocks! This display is in a large oval bed out front that's centered by a large Gardenia shrub. This pile of Shamrocks actually planted themselves here and periodically I move clumps of them to other places, since they do make such a wonderful ground cover. On the other side of the Gardenia in the same oval bed, I have this container garden: It's centered with Gladiolas surrounded by cheerful golden-colored Creeping Jenny, which stays beautiful all winter! I added the Dusty Miller as well, for visual interested doing the drab days of winter, since it also thrives through the cold. Next is another bed in front, this one closer to the house. It fills the corner between driveway and sid...