As for the rest of the plants, I have mostly perennials. I think there are three or four annuals in there. I like perennials better because you really get your money's worth with them; why bother planting new plants every year? Some pots, though, I do like to change up every year, like the tea kettle pot. In the pots on the patio, I have salvia, yarrow (both yellow and salmon), daisies, lavender, Mexican heather, pansies, echinacea (purple coneflower), oriental poppies, bleeding hearts, trumpet vine, and a few others.
I know this past Sunday was Father's Day. I always feel strange now to say, "I really miss my dad" because it's such an understatement. I always knew my dad as "my Father." I never knew him as a person. That's why I always love to hear stories about him when we get together as a family and my uncle will start talking about their childhood or the things my dad did at my age. I know I would have really liked my dad and I say that not just because he was my father, but because he was a really likeable guy. He had strength of character and was insanely smart, yet you'd never know it just talking to him; he was very approachable. I think that part of what I grieve is the loss of the connection we could have had as adults, like the type of relationship my mother and I now have that we didn't have while I was a child.
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