So I don't know if everyone knows this or not, but I LOVE gardening! I started a garden last year for the first time without my mother's help. We have expanded it this year, and we are going all out! We're planting vegetables, shrubs, annual flowers, perennial flowers, herbs, and I'm trying my hand at planting flower bulbs, and possibly Japanese maple trees.
So anyway, to get at what I'm trying to tell you all is that I would be REALLY happy if I could grow most of the flowers for our wedding right here at home. I'm sure I will need to do some supplementing with store bought flowers (instead of ordering hundreds of dollars worth of flower like I had originally planned), but I think that if we get a good start on the garden now and plant tons of bulbs we will have enough.
I'm a little nervous because I have heard complaints about people buying bulbs and not having them come up, or only having a small amount of them come up. I've also heard complaints that the plants came up, but didn't bloom. We'll just have to see what happens...
Soooo, as of right now I have 9 out of 70 mixed colors of gladiolus flowers just poking themselves out of their bed, and I'm hoping and praying that the rest come up also. My favorite flower that I planted this year is called "Black Walnut" gladiolus. They are a pretty burgundy color, and can't wait to see what happens!
Here's a picture of a variety of gladiolus that is really close to the black walnut variety, but these are a little more on the red side. It's the closest picture I could find to the ones that I have planted.
The 2nd and 3rd pictures are a perennial flower that I have in my garden. I have thought about using them in the wedding also.
Please, oh please let my flowers come up!!!!