Did some shopping today

I had some fun at Pesche's today. I walked out with:

• 1 "Margarita" potato vine


• 4 "Fresh Look Gold" celosia


• 3 flowering kale


• 2 licorice plants

"Oceana Blue" salvia

• 2 "Oceana Blue" salvia - this plant is just gorgeous as a vertical element in an urn
  
• 3 "Laguna Sky Blue" lobelia hybrid - great trailing plant


• 3 spikes


• 4 "Bandana Cherry" lantana - I'm already looking forward to watching the butterflies on this one!


• 1 "European Uprights Juicy Tidbits" fuchsia hybrid - never planted a fuchsia before...so I thought I'd get one. Maybe if I'm really ambitious I'll try to train it as a topiary.


• 4 "Victoria Blue" salvia farinacea


• 2 "Americana Pink" zonal geranium


• 2 "Million Bells" Calibrachoa hybrid in cherry pink and gold


• 4 dusty miller


• 2 "Sweet Caroline" ipomea (potato vine)


• 1 purple cosmos

"Diamond Frost" euphorbia

• 1 "Diamond Frost" euphorbia - so dainty! The tiny white petals really liven up any dark corner or dark container.

Some of the plants are for planters on our kitchen deck and some are a birthday present for my mother-in-law. I'm going to plant them up country garden style in a wooden planter that she had built near the stairs to her house.

I started an attempt at pulling my curly willow trees out of their planters on the roof so that we can clear off the roof for the construction crew. After numerous tries with my little hand shovel I gave up yesterday when one of the willows wouldn't budge.

I'm going to have to have pull out the full blown shovel and put my full effort into trying to pry the roots free from the container. (We lined the cedar planters with sheets of Styrofoam covered with landscaping fabric. I have a feeling the roots have intertwined themselves through the landscaper's fabric and that's why it's so difficult to dislodge them from their containers.