Design

I really enjoy my containers, especially the glazed terracotta ones. They survive our winters well (not chipping like regular terracotta) and provide an attractive array of colors in my container medleys: 1) near the potting bench and 2) near the bird feeders. This container, with relatively young plants of Spanish lavender, evergreen thyme, and silver thyme, survived last winter nicely, and looks cheery in the evening light.  And since I've cropped some stray winter annuals out of the photo, it looks even nicer!

Working out in the garden this morning (mostly weeding winter annuals), I was admiring my flats of salad mix, Asian greens, and young spinach and radicchio seedlings. Of course, there are young plants in the ground, too, but the flats are particularly pretty! It's so easy to sow mixes of lettuce and greens in flats or containers or window boxes, it's worth doing even if you aren't really a vegetable gardener.