Every Christmas my father-in-law gives everyone in the family a membership to Red Butte Garden, and every spring we make it a tradition to go to the members-only plant sale. Kevin and I loved this opportunity to round out our flowerbeds and gardens with plants today at the sale.
Here are "the bummies" looking at a butterfly:
And me staring into the sun, holding my newly-discovered chocolate mint plant:
And at last, Kevin checking out with our cart:
My plants:
- chocolate mint
- oregano
- rosemary
- lamb's ear
- firewitch
- echinacea/coneflower (one feathery, one double)
Kevin's plants:
- penstemons (several sorts)
- apache plume
- desert sage
- bleeding heart
- lily ("some red one")
- desert four o' clock
- "some mystery plants"
5 comments:
Wow! I am impressed at how fast you got these pictures up. It was fun to see you there. I ended up with mostly vegetables,(tomatoes and peppers) but We also got a lambs ear. Where are you going to plant yours?
Wow! I just published this post, so *I* am impressed with how fast *you* commented! :)
I'm going to plant my lamb's ear on the east side of the house with my new and existing mint plants. It gets lots of sun, and I bought it mostly just because it has a cool texture.
Chocolate mint? Wow! How did they get those two combined in a PLANT? That's really impressive! I'm sure I didn't read about it in the ASC...
Sounds fun! I'll always remember going to the farmer's market with you guys and Kevin picking out that cool plant. I also love the ones he got: "some red lily" and "mystery plants."
LOL. Thanks to Stina for pointing out those fun little descriptions! As Miss Cornelia would say in the last few "Anne" books... "So like a man." :-D But seriously, all cheek aside, I just want to say that I think it's way cool that you and Kev share this gardening passion, and that Kev has his own little corner of the garden, too! I mean, it's probably not little. You know what I mean. It's just a neat and kinda unusual thing to share... I guess I don't know that many men who like gardening, so I think it's cool!
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