Planting Flowers

Every year my mom and I go shopping for flowers to plant around the house.  Every year I have to guess at how many and what types of flowers I need.  Then I get home and have too many flowers to not enough.  I decided last year as I was planting, I need to break this cycle.

I made a list on my computer of everything that I bought and where I planted it.  This spring before my mom and I headed out to buy flowers, I put all my pots out around the yard so I knew exactly what I needed to plant.  I then opened up the flower list on my computer, made any adjustments needed, printed it off, and put it in my purse.  This list was a great help when my mom and I headed to the Amish and to Ebert's Greenhouse to get our flowers.  I bought exactly what was on my list and even jotted down some types of flowers I may want to purchase next year.

Today I planted my flowers and I was only 3 impatiens short!  What a huge difference from other years.  I did type the list as a Google Doc so instead of printing it, I could also view it on my Android phone.  This year I printed it because I wanted to be able to cross the items off as I purchased them, however I think next year I am going to try and just do it on my phone.