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I have been out all week digging, weeding, planting, watering, mulching and having fun. I received quite a few plants from a GG friend last weekend. I have been sorting thru trying to remember which ones are best in part sun and which ones want full sun and especially which ones like shade. I think I have it figured out. I took before and after pictures. The other things I have been doing is trying to remember all of the names..I seem to have forgotten most of them. You will see them in the pictures. Maybe my GG friend that gave them to me can remind me so I can mark them in the garden.
I want to make cute little markers that I can do with my daughter. She needs a new craft for this weekend. I saw the cutest rustic markers made out of sticks. I will have to look for that website again, forgot where I saw them.
A few I remember: Forget-me-not's, hostas, iris's, fern, a lot of ground cover, mint and Day lilly's to name a few.
The front bed is almost finished. I have to finish mulching. I decided to put newspaper under the mulch so the weeds don't have a chance. Most of the planting is done except for the new bushes my husband went to pick up this morning for the front of the house. I had a choice between a rose bush or a butterfly bush. I chose the butterfly bush (tricolored: blue, white, purple). I have a rose bush and one is enough for now....Would rather see butterflies instead of bees and ants...
I am working on a special gift for my flower giving GG friend. She will be so surprised when it shows up on her doorstep. It will be a few more weeks until it is finished but she will get it soon after..
Back to work not quite finished....
Well good afternoon everyone! Here I am a day later and if it's possible to have a hangover from gardening, I most certainly do! I came in last night when it was dark and I took a shower. I scrubbed from head to toe, shampooed and scoured but I could still smell mulch! When I wrote that blog last night I was sitting here and I could still smell ....you guessed it....mulch. I asked the DH if I smelled like mulch and he laughed and said "No dear. You probably have mulch in your nose." I went to bed smelling mulch. I dreamed of mulch. I spread mulch in my sleep! I woke up this morning and could not move and you would think I had spent the night in a bar! I looked aweful!...lol. My eyes were swollen (probably from all that bending over) and I had a headache that would have made a college party kid proud! I do declare after yesterday I am convinced I picked my GG name to early. I should have signed up as Mulchin' Annie! I can hear the titles now. Instead of " Anne of Green Gables", it will be Anne of Black Mulch. "Annie Get Your Gun" will be Annie Get Your Garden Spade!" "Anne, Queen of Mulch." etc. And it's not over...not by any stretch! I couldn't wait to get some chores done so I could go out and take some pictures. Due to my hubby's schedule, most of the time he leaves in the dark of the morning and get's home at dark. He has little time to see changes in the yard. He didn't get to see the mulch last night and he left before dawn this morning. When he got home he saw how nice the mulch was and I told him I was going to take pictures for the blog. So I ran in to get the camera and came back outside. Before I could take the pictures, DH said "Wait wet the mulch down - it will look better." I hung my head for a second and thought...Okay....I'll wet the mulch down. I put the camera down and grabbed the hose. After having the wet t shirt contest for mulch, I turned off the hose and grabbed the camera again and started clicking happily away. :D . I excitedly ran back into the house to pull up the GG site and got my graphics program open in anticipation of resizing and uploading pictures. When I opened the camera to get the memory card out, I had another "hang my head" moment. I had forgotten to take the memory card out of the computer and put it back into the camera last night. Hence, I had to put it back into the camera, go all the way downstairs and out to the front and retake the pictures. Before my hubby left. He asked me if I wanted to put the last bag of mulch in the plow bed which is in our side yard. I said no, there isn't enough to do the whole bed. His reply was okay, we'll just go ahead and get a truckload then! My eyes got very wide for a moment and then I hung my head and shook it side to side and walked back into the house....
To Carolyn: I have never had problems with Cypress mulch either. I just noticed that the dianthus was dying and I wasn't certain why. There could be several reasons, but I think the slugs are the main culprit. Anyway, I think the dark mulch makes the colors of the bed really pop! Thanks for the comment :)
To Mountain Sprite: I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina. We have black bears, coyotes, foxes, ground hogs, bob cats, racoons and we also supposedly have mountain lions however rare or endangered. No one has reported seeing one lately. For birds we have a variety. All sorts of finches and grosbeaks, cardinals, eastern blue birds, titmouse(mice..whatever) hawks
, geese etc. I hope this helps.
To Mitzi: No need to be afraid of your lilies. If you keep them well spaced and trim the dead out of them and keep them mulched, you shouldn't have a problem. It's when they become too thick for mice and rodents to hide in there is a problem. The snakes hunt the mice and when humans come into contact by accident that's where we freak out. The crews cleaning out the interstate medians and rest stop areas that have daylilies have a severe problem with copperheads - but that is because those beds are undisturbed for long periods of time. I have only had the mistfortune of crossing spades with grass snakes and the occasional baby copperheads. As long as you tend your beds you should be fine. A piece of good advice and a cardinal rule for Girl Scouts. "LOOK BEFORE YOU REACH!" As for the rose graphic you inquired about. No, I didn't paint it but thanks for the compliment. I used my graphics program called Paint Shop Pro to create that signature tag. It's a process called "tubing" Tubing means to take a subject out of it's background and save it to a particular format. After it's saved you can create anything you want with it. Once you have learned to use the tools and to tube, the whole world is your oyster! You can create anything you want! You can create wall papers for your computer, email stationery, paper stationery, greeting cards, business cards, flyers and papers for all sorts of scrap booking. All of that led to the side job that I have now of photo restoration and enhancements.
I hope I have answered some questions and comments. Aside from the delerium, I truly do love my mulch and I am so grateful to have it. Below are the pictures I took. I hope you enjoy them :) - Karen
Good Evening All, It's late but I decided to post the bits and pieces of my week. First of all, I can't recall who suggested the bbq skewers for getting rid of slugs, but THANK YOU SO MUCH! I came across a few of them today and those skewers were very handy! After discovering the little buggers, I skewered them and threw them into the roadway to die a thousands deaths! I am convinced they have been the culprits that have been eating everything I have planted this year! But those slugs are not alone in the list of pests I have in my yard. I found that we had moles last year, but did nothing about it. I was too stressed out to deal with a lot of stuff in the yard. This yard as I stated in another blog was totally neglected. Daylilies had been planted all over the front yard. In fact, half of the front yard was nothing BUT daylilies. The neighbors had stated that they hated it because the owners would not allow any mulching of them and the weeds were impossible to handle so the former renters just let it grow up and it got very weedy out there making the house an eyesore. Now I don't exactly hate day lilies, I think some of them are quite pretty. However they tend to attract rodents which in turn attract snakes. So I don't care for them for that reason and another they tend to look tropical and I hate anything tropical looking. ( I know I am going to get some boos and hisses about that statement...lol) Please don't hate me! I was born in New Jersey and taken to Florida as a child. I never like it and I hated the heat so badly. I couldn't wait to escape Florida and come back north (but not so north that I had to leave the South. So anyway, DH and I kept the lilies mowed down, but they kept growing back. Then we noticed fewer and fewer and the ones we kept were dying off too. It finally came to me that the enemy of my enemy was my friend! The moles were eating the daylily roots, thereby killing them off. Now the yard looks a lot cleaner and at least well mowed. We still have lots and lots of weeds in the lawn, but we are working on that and the lawn is mowed and neat. The latest pest is cute, but a pest none the less, it's a racoon. We have 4 feeders and 2 suet feeders, but he chose this one particular feeder in the back yard. He would come about 1 am and sit atop the feeder post and then reach down and lift the bar of the counter balanced feeder and feast away. Of course I would watch him for a few moments always torn between scaring him away and delighting that a beautiful creature had come to our yard. Scaring him away is the best thing I could do for both of us and I was determined to find a way to keep him out of the feeder. I searched through the internet to find out what I could do and came across a website that described racoons as walking coyote pot roasts...lol. Apparently they are a favorite meal of the coyotes. I took some tidbits of information and I thought and I thought. I needed wire that he couldn't chew through and heavy enough to keep him from being able to un twist it. (Racoons are very good at that you know.) Finally I had that Ah Ha moment. I sailed by my husband and "I said I am going to fix that walking pot roast's little happy behind." and I got an old wire coat hanger and cut it with the bolt cutters. I twisted one end around the counter balance bar and then made a loop at the other end. On the post I screwed in an eye bolt. I then inserted a small padlock through the loop of the hanger and the loop of the eyebolt and voila! The feeder bar is locked down so tight he can't get the bar up.
So far it has worked. I have not heard a sound at night from the feeder and the other feeders are not disturbed. Now if we can just keep the bear out of it this winter, we'll be doing fine :D
That brings me to today. Today was mulching day for me. Actually, I have been trying to get it done for the last week, but I haven't had much success. Today I was determined to get the front porch beds done. I had cypress mulch in the beds there but I think it was killing the dianthus. So, I decided to rake out the cypress and replace it with hardwood mulch instead. You would think that would be easy enough, but nooooo. First there were the slugs that I discovered. Then raking and digging out I found little weeds here and there to be pulled. And oh yes, what to do with the old "new mulch" I still had two bags left of that to put somewhere. So I opted to put that around a large azaela bush, one of the suet feeders and the lilies that are around that so not pretty street sign in our front yard. After that, it was much too hot to work in the yard so I had to wait until the afternoon shade appeared. It was about 5 pm and I finally was able to lay the mulch in the beds and be done with at least the front. I laid down so much mulch I found myself making up mulch sales slogans. - Mulch! Get it while it's hot!: Got Mulch?: Mulch..better flowers for a better tomorrow. : Everything goes better with Mulch! I decided that I was having mulch delirium and that it was time to quit for the evening. So, after giving everything a good watering it was time to "go to the house" as they say here in the south. All in all it has been a good week ...except for the slugs. I can't wait to take some pictures tomorrow of the newly mulched beds. I hope all is well in your sunny patch tomorrow. take care, *hugs*-
last year i tried annuals around my young trees and I will never go back to mulch, the annuals filled in so nicely that it looked so much better then mulch
from: postmygarden.com
Today was the day for major progress on the back yard beds. I started out near the compost pile and worked along the back fence by the forsythia bushes. Cleaning out all of the leaves that seem to always blow into our place. Found that I have a bunch of new Raspberry bushes that are starting. DH will love that, he hates anything prickly. Next I started in on the new shade garden I put in last year. I was pleased to find that almost all of the plants are coming back. I think I only lost one Tiarella plant, but it is still early. Here is the Ligularia. I'm so excited to see that it made it through the winter!
Last year I completely neglected the area underneath our deck, so I started there next. I pulled and pulled and pulled. We have Zoysia grass and it has completely invaded my plantings. I put down some newspapers layers and then covered with 2-3 inches of mulch. Hopefully this will make it easier to maintain this one. The hostas and the coral bells are coming up. Also noticed that the columbine seeds I sprinkled last year produced 6 plants. I think maybe next year they will bloom as they are very little. Also pulled some bee balm as it was getting a little out of its location.
MIL was watching my daughter so I checked in with her and she was having a great time and said to come over when I was finished gardening. So... I started on another bed. Cleaned out the North side of the garage where all the hosta and columbine plants are coming up. The amount of leaves never ceases to amaze me. Also found this little plant. Not sure what it will be it was tucked back behind the lillies. It looks like it might be a fern.
Here is the bed after I cleared out two full bags of leaves and other junk. My puppy was busy watching all the work happen today.
I was out for almost 7 hours today in the bright sunshine. I got a sunburn, but it should be better tomorrow. It was well worth it.
Well, we typically get one snow a year in my neck of the woods...and thats what we got yesterday! It started really coming down while we were at church, and when service was over and the curtains were lifted, everyone cheered at the sight of "cotton balls" falling from the sky. It really was quite beautiful! It only kept up like that for a couple of hours, then it just turned to slushy rain. I did get a couple of shots of the crocus in the snow:
Here is the front yard with the nice "dusting"
Its all melted now and we are forcasted for weather in the 70's this weekend :)
My little seedlings are coming up in the veggie beds: lettuce, kale, parsley and chinese cabbage. - HORRAY! Always so nice when something goes as planned! I hope to get the rest of the mulch moved to the veggie area this weekend during the gorgeous weather.
Happy spring :)
More of the crocuses are coming up! I am so excited! They are such a nice shot of color in our front garden, right by the driveway:
I am looking forward to more :)
I also got a decent pict of the daffs that are starting to do their thing:
I think I am going to add more early spring bulbs to the garden in the fall...they are just so wonderful, aren't they?
The hellbores are really looking great this season. I must say patience pays off with these and I am looking forward to years of them getting bigger and naturalizing:
We have been whittling away at the giant mulch pile and have finished the side drive and due to the fact that we have PLENTY left, I decided to put it around the veggie beds to eliminate the need for mowing back there:
I had great help as well! My huuby did quite a bit as well as my wondrful MIL, who was in town this weekend.
I really had no idea how BIG the pile was...it really feels like, the more we move, the more there is...but, it is coming in very handy!
Once we get it all moved, hubby will start going to get me the compost from the city to fill in the veggie beds.
Happy week!
Last week I had what seems to be the largest pile of mulch in the history of gardening delivered to my yard! We are so lucky that we can get this free from the city:
Of course, my girl had a great time climbing the "mountain" as I set out to spread it on the side yard.
I did get a good bit done. This is where my hubby parks his truck and every winter, I spread a fresh layer. I have also been working on the usual winter clean up in preparation for spring. I had a lovely clematis armandii and wisteria growing on the side of the house. Well, the clematis had turned all crispy, which its not supposed to do since it is an evergreen. Well, it looked terrible, so Hubby helped me cut it way back to the base. Will be interesting to see if it comes back...I have my doubts.
Here is what it looked like in its glory, before turning brown:
And now, after the BIG prune :
Bummer! At least the fig tree will leaf out in spring to cover the ugly gas line.
Also, a few weeks back my trusty weedeater died! UGH! So, while hubby and I were at Home Depot pricing a new one (quite expensive actually), A stranger walked by and said he had a used one that we could buy for $10. So, we took him up on it and after a bit of tinkering, hubby got it working and cut back the grasses for me!
He did say it is a bit finicky, but it should hold us over for the time being :)
My little one had fun using her new camera to take pictures of daddy too:
Today the goal is to clean up the grasses from their hair cut and move more mulch.
Happy gardening!
I finally got a compost bin. I have been wanting one and tried to get one through a city program but that didn't work out. So I ordered a bin from a place on the internet and I just got it yesterday. I will put my first contributions in the bin tonight. I am so excited about reducing my trash and using it in my garden. This particular bin also creates compost tea for liquid fertilizer, so I feel like I'm getting a two for one.
Last night I only had the energy to water, set up my compost bin (that took all of 10 minutes) and make a list of things to do this weekend. I have two small tree stumps that I want to take my ax to. I also have some weeding to do around two sides of the house. I hope it rains today so I don't have to water again tonight and that will make the weeding easier to do. I have to make a mulch run (or two) tomorrow night so I'm ready to work on that on Friday. The pine straw in the lorepetalum bed on the side of the house is deteriorated and I want to place some pretty cypress mulch there to match the cypress mulch I put in the back yard.
This weekend I expanded my front perennial bed about 5 ft. I think next year I will bring it all the way up to the house, but this is a good start for now.
In the photo below you can see the large flower basket that my dad made me last year and the phlox (purple and white) on the left side. I divided these and moved them in last year. It looks as though every single one made it through our harsh winter. I checked them out and see lots of little flower buds. They will be opening soon. I hope they begin trailing over the edge this year, but I know it may not be until next year.
Off to the right of the basket is where I began the expansion. I sheared off about 5 ft. of Creeping Charlie. Hoping to keep it under control a little better this year. I split the Bloody Cranesbill that did so well over the last couple of years. I managed to get six good sized divisions. I planted 5 in the new bed and gave one to the neighbor and left a good chunk of the original plant in place. Below you can see the divisions happily in their new home.
I am trying a new process for mulching. Someone suggested that instead of using landscaping plastic to use old newspapers in thick layers to keep the weeds at bay. So here goes, I put down newspapers over the bare ground around all of the divisions, and then added 3" of mulch. Hopefully Charlie won't visit my new bed.
This is the original plant in full bloom in 2006. It was almost twice as big last year and should have split it then, but it was too late before I realized it.
Bloody Cranesbill 2006
Here is more info about Creeping Charlie and Creeping Jenny
They are different plants but both are perennial. Both can be invasive.
Charlie has scalloped edged leaves and purple flowers. It spreads by runners. Any where the runners touch soil they grow roots. If you use a hoe to dig it out any broken pieces will grow roots and compound your problem. It is best to wait until fall if you are going to spray it with chemicals, but pulling it up in the very early spring before it gets it's new growth on it seems to work best for me.
Here is more info about Creeping Charlie.
Jenny is often sold for a ground cover, but most people here in Nebraska use it only in container gardening and treat it as an annual. It has round leaves and it is often chartreuse in color. It has yellow flowers.
Here is more info about Creeping Jenny.
is still blowing some little gusts of wind around today. It makes it hard to place newspaper down, wet it so it stays in place, then fill the cart with mulch and place it on the newspaper.
I have about one load of mulch left to do today, had to take a break and get a bite to eat. Now I am back to the mulch and whatever else I can get done today.
It is time to visit the local Food Lion. That means searching through coupons and making sure I have the right product and that the date is still good. Not my favorite thing of course.
More to Come Later
We have had quite a few rainy days here lately (great for the drought) and today was no exception. I just love the way the garden looks after a good rain! I was planning on plant shopping this afternoon, but it was raining so hard...my girl and I sang songs and watched the rain from the front porch. So lovely! In between rain showers, I was able to get some nice picts of the garden as of late:
View from the front porch:
Various views of the front of the house as seen from the street:
Looks like the redbud will be in its full glory in no time :)
The lorapedulums are doing great and I love the contrast of the Junipers. The one shrub has a piece of it that grows with the white blooms. I have long debated as to cut it out each season, or leave it be. Sometimes I think it is fun and unexpected, other times I think it looks like a mistake...I can't decide.
Saucer Magnolia survived one of the late freezes and is in its glory! I just love it...when the petals start to fall, it looks a bit like a summer snow.
All the front perennials are starting to come up and I look forward to adding even more this season!
These seedlings were easy to spot in the wet mulch...I think they might be poppies. I threw out a bunch of poppy seeds in this bed (not expecting much)...if they aren't poppies, then they might be a weed, I am not sure:
The Japanese Maples are budding out nicely. They were severely affected by the late freeze last year. Looks like this year will be better:
The creek is doing its thing...and all the moisture should be wonderful for the newly planted Great Gunnera Bulb
Nice view of the back yard today (hubby has promised to have all the veggie bed fences done and installed by april 1st for planting time :)
The persicaria is coming back :)
And finally...a view of the back, from the back ( I enjoyed comparing this picture with the same shot from last summer....its nice to see the progress)
I am so enjoying watching spring unfold! Maybe I will get to my plant shopping in the next couple of days. I have so many things on my list to add to the garden...and our home depot landscape supply just stocked up, so I can't wait to check it out!!!!!!!
I had another great weekend in the garden. Got LOTS done as I am taking advantage of the warm daytime temps we have been having lately. I spent so much time on the front yard this past growing season, that now I am excited to get more work done in the back. I have been doing things such as defining the beds and putting in paths. I ordered another load of the free woodchips from the city and got busy spreading it:
I laid down a path in between the beds leading to the back. The bed to the left contains hydrangeas and hostas. I just transplanted all the hydrangeas to a better layout and added 2 variegated hydrangeas on either side of the sweet gum tree - I am looking forward to seeing how it looks come spring.
Here is the same path, from the back view:
My husband cut down the remainder of the trunk of the tree we took out last weekend. He was excited, because this meant he got to buy an electric chain saw. He always loves getting new toys...as you can see it definately did the trick:
I also transplanted the nandinas that were in the front of this tree over to another space so that now I have room to put in a nice conifer garden :) I also finished spreading all the pine straw (this helped to define the beds and create some new planting areas in the back yard. Here is a good shot of the back yard as of today:
The creek area even got some attention this weekend. Once I finish dragging the brush to the curb, it will be all cleared and ready to plant up with ground covers and ferns. I also plan to put an arbor at the gate with a nice vine on it and an outdoor hammock so that the area can be fully enjoyed!
I am interested to see what survived out of my bargain fern purchases that I planted back here in late summer. Once the drought hit, they began to suffer...so we will see. The creeping euonymous is doing well, however :)
On the list for this week: finish spreading wood chip pile and dragging creek brush to curb!
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! I have been taking advantage of both the season end sales at the garden centers and my time off from work to get a lot of things done in the garden. My local garden center has all their left over bulbs on sale for 75% off, so I planted 20 purple and 20 orange tulips in the front yard. I also planted 30 daffodils by the azaleas in the back yard. I am still waiting on some allium bulbs I purchased on line. Those will go in the back yard so that I can see them while I do dishes :).
I got 2 more double knockouts for 50% off to compete the grouping by the bird house.
I also spent a good bit of time applying a generous layer of pine straw over the front beds. It took 36 bales! It used to take 90+, but now that the plants are growing in niceley...it takes less. It feels so good to have this done. Here are some picts:
Yesterday, after taking down most of the Christmas decor, I spent a majority of the afternoon weeding the back yard and getting it ready for its winter pine straw application. I have 2 Madame Alfred Roses on order that I will plant on either side of the arbor in the back. I selected this particular rose because: it is thornless, evergreen, climbing, and blooms white....the only rose I could find that met all of these criteria (which is what I wanted for the arbor).
While I was doing this work in the back, I noticed that for the first time, my hellebores are blooming! I got these as little seedlings from my mom's garden 4 yrs ago...patience pays off!
Can't wait for my goodies to come in the mail...but I really can't wait to see the bulbs come up in the spring!
Happy New Year Everyone!
Well, last week the temps were in the 80's and now the high today was in the 40's with a windchill below freezing! Not that cold for a lot of you up north, but its cold for us here in Atlanta! But, I must say...its about time. I stopped by a local nursery yesterday that has just declared bankruptcy (due to the drought) and they have almost everything on sale. I got a fabulous Coral Bark Maple that I have been wanting for some time to use as a focal point for the new bed in the back yard. I finally got to get it b/c it was 50% off. My sweet (and somewhat disgruntled) hubby helped me get it in the ground today:
BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!
Can't wait to see it come spring...
I also got another double knock out rose to add to the front. They were 50% off too! I wanted to get more, but only had room for one in the car since we also had the baby with us :)
This will add some nice color by the abelias
My wonderful and still somewhat disgruntled hubby :) is at Home Depot, as I type, getting bales of pinestraw to do the winter mulching. YEAH!!!!
Well, we picked yesterday what I am pretty sure is the last of the harvest. We picked all the green tomatoes on the vine, since the temperatures have cooled off so that they won't ripen. Hopefully they will ripen on the window sill:
We continue to get lots of figs and enjoy eating them right off the tree! We also picked the rest of the peppers.
I had planted a bunch of fall seeds, but since I can't water....they will not grow :( So, I look at my pitiful patch of dirt in despair :(
But, the situation here is so dire, I understand.
I will focus next on mulching since thats really about all that can be done.
Well the people I hired to clean out that bed, hopefully got all of the poison ivy! I can actually see the old bones of that overgrown bed! During the course of neglect .. I lost a couple of hosta, but my coral bells, hydrangea and a few other things actually do not look to bad considering the drought.
Now I need to work on it. So more has been added to my fall to-do list! First thing is to get some soil amendments in there. Maybe add some Preen to help stop the weed seeds from sprouting??
What kind of mulch do you use, up close to the foundation of a house?
Spent the morning doing a little clean up and spraying for more weeds. Too hot for this yardgranny to do much heavy stuff. After that I began putting together my butterfly cage. Some of the screws were more stubborn than my middle son. Several went right in with no problem and then others were determined not to have any part of this project. Then after I got two screens put together, I realized I would have to take one side loose and reposition it so there would be no gap between the screens. Since it was almost noon and my patience had about worn out, I decided, much as "Miss Scarlett" would say, I'll do that job tomorrow. So first thing tomorrow I am going to finish that cage.
Since it looks as if my photo albums are not returning, I will have to begin reposting pictures. I am hoping my DIL will send a pix of my new grandpuppy. Kalua Hershey is her name and she is a longhaired, chocolate mini daschund. She will be a spoiled and much loved addition to their home.
A MG friend came by with a load of bearded iris last week. Some have found new homes and the others were finally heeled in until our next meeting to be shared with the group. I have a new spot being readied for my iris. They have not been moved in a number of years and did not bloom well this spring. They will all come out of the old bed and into the new one and be joined with a few of the new ones. Hope I remember to pick up some gypsum before I go to planting.
It is always nice to have someone else look at your gardens. They see it from a whole different perspective than the owners. A friend came by while I was out one day and then called to say my yard was 'beautiful'. Really made my day to hear that. Most of the time I see all the projects, weeds and plants that are not doing so well. So ask people to come over and look around anytime they are in your neighborhood, then be sure to ask them what they thought.
Time to go for more mulch next week. Seems there is always a need for a load. There are many places that need to be filled in especially the dogwood tree bed. That is the bed I weeded for 3 hours or more one Saturday. It was full of wild violets. And to think I used to love those little plants when I was a kid.
Must go for now, More to Come Later
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