My garden box

This garden box was a Valentine's Day gift from Jack's dad. We grew dwarf peas in the spring to the great delight of my kids, who discovered that peas straight from the vine are delicious.

In the summer I planted herbs and a bunch of vegetable seedlings I started in the house. What with the hot, dry Lubbock summer, neglecting to water, and leaving town, everything pretty much shriveled up and died.

I finally got tired of having a box of dirt surrounded by rocks that ended up in the dirt or all over the grass and went and bought plants. I went for the most colorful, some perennial, and resistant to cold weather plants I could find. The kids and I planted them that night, and then it rained for the first time in months. Beautiful.

These flowers have not disappointed. As long as I snip off the spent blooms, they keep blooming. I love how bright the pinks are. And I love that Jack Jack knows which flowers are dianthus.

We've had several freezing nights, and you wouldn't even know it from the look of my flower garden. I love growing things.