How Are those Annuals?

Remember the annual flowers I got for almost nothing? Mixed report on how they are doing. The pink New Guinea impatiens recovered and bloomed nicely. You can see they were all in metal jail at the time.

The impatiens with white flowers next to it also was covered in new blossoms. Then I found some bird netting I already owned. I replaced the wire with that because I didn't really have enough wire, and the netting looks so much better.

But, someone with teeth got under that (No big surprise, I guess. I didn't have it fastened very well) and ate all the flowers off those two plants. However, now the other white impatiens is blooming.

The Gazenias are doing better. I don't think they were eaten, but they did take longer to recover from the end-of-sales-season neglect and being root-bound. They seem to be different colors, so that's cool.

This one is really nice. It's not fully open. Maybe tomorrow. They close up every night, but the way the petals are curled I think this one just isn't all the way open. I'll check again tomorrow.

Something ate the tops off of several plants in the rock garden, so I may need to fence that too. The bird netting seems to work really well when I spend more time to fasten the bottom down with garden staples. I didn't have any garden time while Bernie and Loretta were here, but now I'm back to my own schedule and I did manage to spend a total of an hour in the garden today, plus I made a video someone wanted. Then I had a meeting in the evening. My brain is apparently still flaky post-hike. Hopefully, I will get most things done more or less on time and not miss any programs. It's really bad when you miss a program you are supposed to give. It has happened twice in my life. Totally embarrassing.

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