Summer Blossoms on Ice

I do not have a green thumb.  I once killed a silk ficus benjamina.  No joke.  When my hubby and his mother planted a vegetable garden this year, they ordered me to stay away from it.  I touch a plant and it dies.  So imagine my delight when I succeeded this summer in growing and keeping alive a hanging planter of impatiens.

I bought the plant at Lowe’s for $3.99, not much to risk.  Maybe it would provide a week of decoration for my yard before I killed it.  I brought it home, watered it, then hung it on my double shepherd’s hook alongside my hummingbird feeder.  The directions said “shade” so I hung it within the afternoon shade of the garage. We had a few days of rain, which proved to agree with the plant, and it bloomed.  During the hotter days, I dumped ice cubes on it to cool the soil and melt to provide more water (A trick I learned from The Farm House Restaurant in Lake Park, Georgia, whose personnel “ice” all the gorgeous hanging plants on their porch).

My plant has bloomed and bloomed.  It attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, and bumble bees.  It’s gorgeous.  And I haven’t killed it.

But summer isn’t over yet.

Diva Cheryl