Don't be so hard on yourself. We all learn in different ways, but at least you learn. None of us are perfect, I'll bet it's turning out to be quite lovely. You're creating some future memories for your family, and you don't have idle hands, so keep plugging away. Ask any gardener, the beauty of it lies within the fact that you CAN move things around. It's not permanent persay, so you move something someplace else, it happens alot. I'd love to see pictures of your gardens, I'll bet they're very nice. Good luck to you.

I don't have any pots out in the garden yet, but I have a few I use by the front door and the garage entrance. I like old looking terra cotta. I've had these big ones for four years now. They hold 2 cubic feet of dirt and could probably handle 3. To their testament, when they're full of wet soil, I have no choice but to lay them on their sides and roll them. I've moved them several times and left them in a storage unit for the summer. No cracks or chips. They are Spanish made pots. Paid almost $75 each. Saw the almost exact same design at Home Depot two years ago for half that. I'm betting mine hang on longer than the cheap imports from big boxes. Beside my garage door. I've got passionvine, blue and red, on the trellis. It's surrounded by petunias. The next smallest is a cheap import and contains cat grass. Another petunia and a Ipomoea batatas "Blackie" are in the two smallest cheap imports. I like terra cotta. My plants seem to do better in them than in plastic pots. By the front door, I have a Boston Fern and a ficus tree I rooted in two similar pots. The ficus comes inside during the winter.

Punxsutawney Phil is my very favorite, but Aragon & Sabine Baur are close behind. Lovely pictures! I seem to have several bunnies this year, I'm thinking my cat I lost early this spring must have been doing much more hunting than I gave her credit for. I used to have "gifts" of moles/voles/something on the porch for me, but nothing now that she is gone. Who would have thought it of the cat who was very overweight & blind in one eye?

I think that has real potential. Hope to see you post it next year........Maryl