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  1. I love seeing photos of your patio, and I think that's the biggest photo I've seen that shows most of the space! I'm guessing you shot that with a wide angle lens? I keep meaning to buy one of those. Looking forward to seeing what you do with the patio this year!

  2. Please tell me the name of the plant spilling over the side in picture #3 and again in #5. Your patio space is so lovely. I LOVE the special touches you add (little bird on the driftwood). Just looking at the picture is relaxing. Thank you, Brenda.

  3. Wow, that seems like a huge patio for an apartment "cottage". I could live with that!

    I love the metal angel shown in the one container. I'd love to find one just like her.

    Thanks for a very informative post.

  4. You are certainly one heck of a gardener, talk about green thumb. Your patio is so pretty, takes a lot of work to keep it up so well would imagine. Looks like you enjoy time out in your lovely yard, your own oasis.
    Hope you have wonderful Easter

  5. Great tips! I know I have gone to containers around my larger yard for color, with the backdrop of greens, bushes, and perennials. Being able to move them around really makes your yard a dynamic chance to change with the light available. Chicago is north so the sun arcs far north and to far south during the growing season. Great post, Sandi

  6. I like the phrase "thriller, filler, spiller." It reminds me of another gardening axiom, "sleep, creep, leap." I heard that phrase applied to perennials — the first year in the ground they don't do much, just sleep. The next year, they just grow a small amount, and seem to creep. Then, in the third year, they really take off with a big leap. It's a good thing to remember when planting, because it's easy to be impatient with plants, but the waiting usually pays off. It looks like patience — and some hard work — has paid off on your patio!

  7. Your patio space is such a pretty little oasis for you and your dogs, Brenda! I'm just today seeing the tips of some of my perennials poking through, but with cold weather in the forecast, I don't think they'll be in a hurry to grow.

    Happy Easter!

  8. Your patio just keeps getting better and better. Thank you for all these tips. I've learned I don't water enough in the summer time. Happy Easter.

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