Bargain Gardening

We learned a hard lesson about the necessity for drainage. We noticed that our caladiums did not come up this year like they did last year. The bed was full of weeds and the few caladiums that did come up were brown and about 6inches in height. Turns out our caladiums had too much water due to the lack of drainage in the flower bed. When we pulled out the caladium bulbs we discovered they were very large but had rotted so we had to tear out the bed. :(  
This weekend, we were blessed with a solution when we made a quick stop at Lowes and discovered that one of our favorite flowers were clearance down to $5 and that Marigolds were being sold for $1 a dozen. We decided to take advantage of this flower sale and ended up getting all the flowers we needed for about $22. Usually this project would have cost up to $100- What a bargain! We made a day out of redoing our front bed and we are happy with the amount of cheerfulness it has brought to the front of our home. :)