In the Eye of the Beholder

In addition to planting my annual flower bed in the front yard, I added a few new patio plants to brighten up the backyard patio for our party.  Ryan was so cute when he went downstairs and saw them.  He said, "Oh Nani, pretty new flowers!" and then he told me about new rose bushes at his house.  I thought it was funny that a little boy would be so excited about flowers.  He does like to help me plant and go after weeds.  The trick is making sure he digs up the weeds instead of the plants.  There must be some quote about weeds vs plants along the same line as "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" because some weeds can be rather pretty.  I had to google that and came up with one anonymous quote:  "But a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where people want something else.  In blaming nature, people mistake the culprit.  Weeds are people's idea, not nature's."  We were tidying up the garden for the party and came upon this row of weeds.  I was about to start pulling them up when I realized they made a pretty border and would look better than bare earth as we didn't have time to replant.  What do you think?

  

I even think they get tiny blue flowers.  They will go eventually when I find something else to put there.  Here are a few photos of the flowers that Ryan approved of.  The first is a tree rose and I should've taken the photo from the side to show that it's a tree rose but wanted you to see the pretty colors.  It's called Rainbow.  Reminds me of a climbing rose bush I have called "Joseph's Coat."

I also got two huge pots of Impatiens.  They need shade or at the most partial sun so will have to move them under the balcony instead of out on the spa where they are now.

Finally, for some instant color, I got an enormous pot of petunias to put in a hanging planter on our patio.  It's pretty spectacular!