My cana bulbs are growing?!

I would like to start this post with this: my cana bulbs are growing! 

If you read my first post you will remember me mentioning that I planted a bunch of cana's that my mom gave me from Colorado. Where she lives, she plants them about 6 inches deep so I did the same. I came to find out later that here in Minnesota we actually are only supposed to plant them a few inches deep so I dug most (at least I thought most of them) and transplanted them. I must have missed a few of them because they are popping up randomly :) YEAH!!!! 

East side of the garage.... I've decided that I would like this entire area to
be perennials so I don't have to worry about planting here every year. It's just not the best place for bedding plants.
What's changed?

1. Gladiolas are getting bigger and bigger every day
2. One columbine is surviving, the other...I'm not sure it's going to make it
3. I moved the impatiens to another location, they couldn't handle the
intense afternoon heat

New addition!! = I planted two light pink lilis. Lilis are perennials so I'm really hoping these will do well and come back next year. Who knew you could grow these in Minnesota? I always thought they were some tropical flower :p Also in this picture you can see two cana blubs (the two green leefy things in the front) and my sad looking columbine.

 Here's a close up of the gladiolas and the green(ish) columbine.

Second new addition = About a week ago I added these cool flowers. They are called begonias. They also look tropical to me and I love them! These do NOT like the sun. I have them on the north side of my house where they get about 2 hours of very early morning sun. So pretty!

Here's an update on the nanking
cherry bush...just hangin out.

 Ok I know these aren't flowers but I have to throw in pictures of my children whenever I can <3 Barkey (white) and Leon (black)

Our vegetable collection has expanded! We now have ourselves a tomato plant. 

 

I moved the impatiens to this hanging basket on my deck, they get quite a bit of morning sun. I think I'm going to have to move them again, probably near my begonias. Once again, the gladiolas in the green pot are going nuts, I can't wait for them to bloom! 

The red geraniums are doing awesome in Elvis! I had to trim up
the pink ones. 

Coleus here on the
left is pluggin along, I think it's gotten a bit bigger.

There's a cana bulb growing in this pot.I actually planted five (hence the 5 little white tags). 

These things continue to surprise me so who knows, maybe they will pop up. 

 

TRACTOR TIRE UPDATE:

Things are going well here in tractor tire land....for the most post. Most of my petunias are taking off except the fire frost ones, I think one of them might have died. Only one of my snap dragons is blooming so far.

I enlarged this so you could hopefully see the two little green things sticking out? Those are cana bulbs. You can also see the fire frost petunias, those are more delicate that the others for some reason...

Here's a pic of my tire and this awesome tree in my yard. I have no idea what it is, but it's blooming yellowish flowers and it smells AMAZING! Also on the right is an updated pick of the honeysuckle vine. 

Lessons Learned:

1. Petunias like LOTS of water

2. Bedding plants should be planted a little deeper than flush with the ground and have just a bit of dirt over them. 

3. Water plants with Miracle

Grow once a week to help them grow bigger and more beautiful! 

4. Plants are resilient!