I Will Survive

 I had a nice spot next in the front of my house that just begged for a garden...so I thought. 

It faces SW, and is framed by the wall of the garage and the front of our home. The area is behind the variegated Liriope and is framed by the landscape hedge - don't ask me what it is, I can never remember! This area is blazingly hot. It still begs for a garden...but maybe I need to rethink the sort of plants that would love to live there! 

I planted a variety of flowers; some mums left over from last fall, a few gaillardia I picked up somewhere. I had some lovely snap dragons early on, but they finally succumbed to old age and the heat. There were a few others I tried that managed to survive...some others that didn't care for their location. F or example, I adore Dahlias. Of course I planted some. Dahlias don't care for afternoon heat. (But, a few have begun to grow again as the heat resides. I'll have to see how they fare!)

One would think I had taken pictures of my garden area. But, alas, I did not. 

I also planted Zinnias. I love Zinnias. I picked up a packet of seeds early on and spread their seeds and waited.

I picked up another packet of seeds and waited.

My wait was rewarded with a few scrawny Zinnia plants. Nothing with glorious blooms. But Zinnias they were! They have blessed me with a flowers from mid summer....and they still stumble on, despite their scrawny, burned-out lower leaves. 

I went to deadhead flowers a few days ago. Look what I found! Did you see it? At the base of "mama"?!

Here's another:

....and more:

 

Mama (and papa) Zinnia ought to be proud! 

They will live on!