It's not the heat....

Planter just south of 44 S. Main Street, Pigeon.

So what do you do when it's over 90 degrees and super humid? Plant flowers!

A few weeks ago this planter, located on Main Street in downtown Pigeon contained some overgrown shrubs and other crap.  I asked the DPW crew to rip them out and add some top soil, which they did.

I had hoped to get flowers in there before Memorial Day, but time and energy were limited.  Sunday, in all this heat, I had the time and, surprisingly, I had the energy.

So, a couple hours and a mild sunburn later, all the flowers were in the ground.

I chose yellow Day Lily with some Japanese Red Grass in between.  These are perennials and will fill in over the next few years. I discovered that perennials "Sleep, Creep, then Leap," during the first three years after planting. (Mental note to self: blog about the planter's progress in June, 2015.)

Along with the perennials, I added in some two-year old geraniums that spent last summer in front of the office where I work.  They wintered in the storefront next door to the planter, under the care of my friend Wanda Eichler.

Along with the geraniums are your typical purple petunias with a few Kiss Orange Flame Gazanias.

Hopefully they'll all fill out by mid-July and our local Farmers' Festival.

More ramblings can be found at BareNakedBill.blogspot.com