All our flower plots, such as they are, are in the backyard. To make sure most of them – and the hanging pots we buy every spring to hang from the eaves and now around the gazebo – get watered daily Hubby set up an automatic watering system that works on a timer, something that couldn’t extend to the front. I should really plant plastic flowers out there for some curb appeal.

Anyhow, the plots include one up next to the deck; a clematis and hollyhock live there. There’s a lone peony next to the house that blooms whenever there’s a blue moon – or maybe a sun flare. And the hidden lily garden against the west fence.

We both like lilies so we planted some yellow, a couple orange and later a red and an oh-so-pale pink one, along with a few other things that have . . . contd.

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