Mid-South Gardening: May brings a promise of blooms!, 5 by cperdue

cperdue wrote:
Yes Loutre is a French name. Lots of french names even in the northern part of LA. Lots of people with french descent in the area also. My grandmother had french blood in her.

Here is a picture of the big pot on my front porch (actually two of them exactly alike) with the drift roses in it. I'm hoping the roses will cascade over the sides like the the ivy. Thought I would show a few other pictures while I am at it. The second one is one of the pots under my pergola, 3 and 4 are at the back of my koi pond and the last one is of my variegated dogwood. I thought sure I had lost the dogwood. Some big pine limbs came down during the 2012 snowstorm and broke several big pieces off it. But it has recovered and is shooting up and it's actually going to have a nice shape. Of course it didn't bloom this year. I bought it for the foliage anyway. Blooms will just be a bonus!