Spring Has Arrived

You know Spring has arrived in Brandon when you see Dad outside with his pots, dirt and a watering can. Actually he has been out with the plants for several days now but yesterday we bought a couple of new plants and today Aunt Susan and I went to our favorite nursery and bought a few more things. Actually I bought a "few" things while Sue bought several large items. However, Uncle Glen told her to go ahead and spend as much as she wanted and to get whatever she wanted and she DID!!Here are some of this year's plantings. These are miniature petunias which are really cute and they trail down the pot. I really liked the purple and yellow together and they smell wonderful!!!

This is a geranium that we brought back from Arizona last spring - it's a very special one - Martha Washington and is very pretty. We're hoping to use some of these as decorating flowers for the wedding.

My creeping phlox is up and blooming. I planted this because Grandpa Haan used to have a huge section of this phlox and every spring it would be just gorgeous so it reminds me of him. I love it - it's actually a much prettier purple than shows up in this picture.

I've had these little boots in the bottom of my closet for several years - got them on a garage sale. Every year I'd see them and think, I have to plant some flowers in them. This year they had planters you could purchase for $19.99 that looked just like these and I remembered I had some in the closet. So dad drilled holes in the bottom for me and I planted these moss roses. Aren't they cute?

That's it from the Haan Household for this week. Wishing you all a great week ahead and "no rain" for Saturday.

MOM and GRAMMA