Mama Camp: Project: Planting Flowers

The campers wanted to create their own flower garden after being inspired by our trip to the Zilker Botanical Garden. The Big Camper has wanted a garden for months. So far...there is a section along the fence, zoned for this purpose, near the water barrel with a picket fence sign stuck in the middle of the dirt. Because the camp dog uses this area to dig holes and cool off in the summer heat, the future garden needs a medium sized barricade to protect the plants from the camp dog. The fence fairy has yet to visit the pile of dirt, magically turning it into a suitable garden space.

Inspiration must be nurtured so a 24" container was selected to act as a temporary flower garden....and mama camp was off to our favorite nursery.

On the way to the Red Barn Garden Center with coupon in hand (buy five 4" annuals and get 5 free), the Little Camper said:

"We're going to smell Rose Garden!"

Camp Director, "No, we are going to smell different flowers." At Red Barn the Little Camper walked up to the first flower he saw and sniffed, "I smell them!"

After sufficient sniffing, the campers selected ten pots in various colors, red, orange, pink, purple, white. We looked at the flowers as a group and talked about color coordination. The Big Camper decided on purple and pink flowers and the Little Camper just went along. After trading in the flowers for the proper colors we turned in our coupon, made our purchase and went home to turn our thumbs green.


All photos taken with iPhone 3G

Next week's project: Paint our garden sign.

Total Cost: $13.46 (plenty of soil left over for more planting)

Note: The Big Camper wanted to skip ahead to watering the plants before they were planted. Next time, we'll make a project of listing/drawing the steps before getting started.