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Since I’m all about join­ing online shin-digs, I also joined a weekly gar­den meme called How Does Your Gar­den Grow.  Blog­gers can either show pics of their gar­den, give tips and/or tricks, ask ques­tions, etc.

I do a flower pot­ted gar­den every year so I’ll start with a tour pic of what I’m work­ing on this year.

If I could live in Cal­i­for­nia with a yard full of noth­ing but suc­cu­lents I would be com­pletely happy.  But for now, I’ll set­tle with this guy:

I’m always switch­ing out new annu­als every year (I get bored eas­ily!).  This year I’m play­ing with Black and Blue Salvia’s and Der­bys.  They go great together:

I’ve always wanted to do Calla Lilly’s but just got to it this year and was sur­prised by a dou­ble lily:

I’m also work­ing on a But­ter­fly area.  Since I’ve moved into this house I’ve had a but­ter­fly ‘bush’ (Yes, Jen…I know…I didn’t even real­ize it!), but I’m adding some more flow­ers to them this year:

Next Thurs­day I hope to have some pic­tures of my veg­gie gar­den.  I’ve got things com­ing up, but wish I would’ve remem­bered the trick I heard recently: Plant squash, green beans and corn all together.  The green bean will trel­lis up the corn and the squash will act as a ground cover to keep the soil moist for all three.