I can't believe it's been two weeks since I last wrote here. If you read [url=http://dumblondegirl.tblog.co...]the other blog [/url] you'd know it was because I was having techinical problems with my computer. And sorry, but when I could get online, that blog takes presidence.
So in the last two weeks what have I done? I planted some impatiens in the front. Our whole front yard is pretty much trees and not much else grows there. I'm sure that one morning I'll go out there and start crying because the deer have eaten them all. The former owners of this house put these big wooden barrel plants throughout the woods and I put a bunch of impatiens in them too.
Husband got a 'wild hair' and decided to pull out all the overgrown rhododendrons (I know that isn't spelled right) from in front of the house. They were really beyond controllable. Then I took a trip with my mom and step father to [url=http://www.southernstates.com...]Southern States [/url] where I picked out (and stepfather paid for) some holly bushes and begonias to plant there instead. Hubby just got the stumps of the rhodies out yesterday right before it rained. I may get the hollys in this morning if he gets the tiller through there. I'll take a picture of that :)
Right after hubby pulled the bushes out, my mom had hers pulled out (she's a big copycat!). She lives two houses down the street and has already got her replacement plants in. She also picked out holly (a shorter variety) and she put in a climbing rose and some other random perrenials of various colors.
My mom's gardens are beautiful, without a doubt. She has a dark, deep, forest green thumb that I can only be in awe of. BUT one of my pet peeves with her gardens is that there is a mis-mash of color and plants everywhere. For me the plants need to be unified some how. Like either the same colors or same type but different colors... I'm sure I'm not explaining this right.
I've done a bunch of weeding. Tons of weeding. I've been ho-ing the veggie garden every other day. I sprayed all around the perimeter of it with weed/grass killer. I also started tackling my huge project... the septic tank flower bed.
The previous owners put a flower bed on top of the septic tank. I'm figuring because it's hard to get grass to grow there. When we first moved in the big problem was wild (or not, maybe they put it there?) mint, which I still find random clumps of, but not so much. Now the problem there is perenial sunflowers and some other white stalky flower that is out of control. Plus the usual wild strawberries and violets, which I have been pulling out by the wheelbarrel load. So anyway,I started hacking away at the weeds in that bed.
I have written enough, so I'll be going now. :lol:
posted by: jazzydawn (reply)
post date: 05.14.04 (10:09 am)
Sounds like you want to have some kind of theme in your gardens! I do that, too. One of them is all purple flowers, then another is blue and white, and another is all reds, oranges and yellows (the hot colors). It makes sense to do it that way :-)
posted by: Stone (reply)
post date: 12.18.04 (9:20 am)
Let me get this right. You PULLED the rhodendrens? You're complaining about the swamp sunflowers?
I tell my clients to try some of everything & to grow the floweres which grow with the least amount of effort. My people here in GA would kill to successfully grow rhodendrons!
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