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Originally Posted by seavon
I love the flowers and want to re-create them around my lamp post. Does anyone know what the varieties are? I am not a gardner, duh.
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Some of the flowers are snapdragons, petunias, pansies, and violas. The snapdragons seem especially effective this year. Mixing purple with pink can give you good contrast. Other colors give interest as well. Make sure to add some garden soil mix with some peat moss in it and then add some composted manure to the soil mix and prepare the area by digging in these amendments thoroughly before planting the flowers. (Don't use potting soil mixes and no mixes with fertilizer added as this often is too much fertilizer if you prepare the area properly with a 2-3 inch depth of amendments added to the soil before digging it in.) Then add a slow release, granular fertilizer like Osmocote to the soil or wait two weeks after planting to use a liquid fertilizer like Miracle Gro. You need to reapply liguid fertilizer every two weeks or so. (Check the label) Then go out every week or so and dead head the old flowers. Keep the area moist, especially in the the first couple of weeks. You should have a great display of flowers in no time. Don't skip the soil preparation step as that is the key to success in Florida's poor soils.