Mum's The Word

Chrysanthemum's that is. We've officially entered fall and were just on time to change the flowers for the season. This is how the front yard was looking for the summer right before I changed it:

Just at the beginning of summer I planted petunias and impatiens. I have to admit, this is not the best that we had our flowers. I really don't think Tony and I tended to the flowers appropriately. They continued to grow just with less and less blossoms. I hope this season we have a different outcome with our fall season flowers.

Before anything I had to get my hands dirty. I pulled out all the flowers planted earlier in the season. Along with those there were some flowering bulbs that I also decided to dig up. If you look back at the picture above there are plants growing under the right window. One of them was Gladiolus flowers. I dug up whatever I could find and saved them in a plastic bag.

I picked up red chrysanthemum's to put in the ground. Three on each side. Here they are planted.

The pots were empty because when I picked up the red ones I didn't have room in my car and didn't want them to get squished or ruined. Tony has the bigger car so we ran back out right then and grabbed 4 white mums to plant in the pots.

Much better! How cute are chrysanthemums?! They're a fav.

And here's a side view.

I think we're going to get some black mulch to cover the dirt. It'll help make it look neater. Can't wait for these babies to get rounder and fuller.