Amateur Gardener Just Hopes to Keep Flowers Alive All Summer

See, it's the first garden I've ever really planted, unless you count the teeny little ring around my light-post (into which I had to replant flowers four times last summer due to my general incompetence and inability to sustain plant life), or the one-square-foot plot in the back yard in which I attempt to grow basil. I know it's not much, but I'm kinda proud. Of course, I can only dream of achieving the fun quirkiness of Julie's gardens, or the level of (possibly manic) perfectionism attained by LA, but at least everything is still alive.